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Abstract

From the confrontation of imageries and representations in the colonization and domination contexts, Mac  Augé suggests that one of the strongest anthropological research areas nowadays deals with the  manifestations and transformations of the religious aspect in the colonial and globalization contexts. These  changes entail the emergence of fundamentalisms whose reference is set in the origin which is the object of  dispute. In globalization the local dynamics gain global visibility, the global aspect settles down in each one  of the global territories having a bearing on the respective imageries. These challenges question and interest anthropology which must take up again the critical view in a world marked by extremes and in which it is  necessary that the anthropologist assumes, in relation to what he observes, the exteriority of his position in  order to construct his intellectual object and the relationships in which he is involved. Finally, Augé deals with what he calls “ideology of the present” which paralyzes the necessary effort in order to think in the lessons of the past and then be able to think in the future. It is this illusion of the present the one disseminating the  materialistic illusion.

Keywords

anthropology

ideology of the present

imagery

science

globalization

References

ALTHABE, Gérard. (1969). Opresión y liberación en el imaginario. Paris: Maspéro.

DERRIDA, Jacques. (1993). Espectros de Marx. Paris: Gallilée.