%0 Journal Article
%T La aldea en la ciudad. Ecos urbanos de un debate antropol¨®gico
%A Adri¨¢n Gorelik
%J Revista del Museo de Antropologia
%D 2008
%I Museo de Antropologia
%X The article aims to show the dialogues of the Latin American urban thought with a famousanthropological debate, that of Robert Redfield¡äs  folk-urban continuum  and Oscar Lewis¡äs  cultureof poverty . The impact that Redfield and, more broadly, Chicago¡¯s theories on social change had onthe theories of modernization in Latin America is of course well known, as well as the works of Lewis.But it has not been reflected enough about the meaning that the whole Latin American urban thoughthas been developed, in the period that runs between the Second War and the seventies, under theframework established by that debate. And as the city had, in that period, a clear political and culturaloverdetermination, reviewing the connection with that debate is not only the analysis of a case amongothers of circulation of scientific ideas, but the opportunity to observe, through anthropology, thespectrum of figurations within which the thinking about the  Latin American city  then moved
%K urban thinking
%K Latin-America
%K ideas circulation
%U http://publicaciones.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/10/7