Resumen de Old Bones, New Powers
In the 2006 Wenner-Gren symposium volume edited by Ribeiro and Escobar and titled World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations in Systems of Power, the central question focused on the ways in which cultural anthropology was being challenged and reshaped by "transformations within systems of power". In this essay, I will explore two propositions: first, that the question can usefully be reversed to examine how the anthropological field is itself a key transformer of those systems of power; and second, that the idea of "world anthropologies" presented in Ribeiro and Escobar can be challenged by expanding it to biological anthropology. In doing so, I suggest that the stimulating pluralization of scientific production can be combined with the (re)construction of a shared world anthropology
