Antropología del cuerpo y nuevos saberes

Abstract

Human sciences, conceived from man as foundation of all knowledge andrecalling Foucault, intending a double reference to anthropology and the possibility of mandeceiving himself and getting pleasure with empirical knowledge of self. One can think ofbuilding an anthropology as critical instrument which challenges the establishment andhelp us figure out a social subject entangled with new technologies. Anthropology toreflect on social and cultural backgrounds in order to understand the individual and a bodydefined as surface which endures changes, adheres to the same and gets transformed.Myth is recovered, and re-updated, in order to, again, read human occurrence.