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Mexican social anthropology was established as a practical tool for combining field studies with proposals for government action. From its inception it was closely related to the revolutionary project of national integration, but by the end of the 1950s academics had begun to question indigenista policy and its relationship with anthropological practice. Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s “Seven Erroneous Theses about Latin America” was one such critique. During the 1970s and 1980s it led to a debate that influenced many areas of anthropological study, nurturing a new kind of Mexican anthropology.La antropologia social en Mexico se funda como una antropologia practica, en la medida en que sus precursores sostienen la importancia de conjuntar los estudios de campo con propuestas de accion gubernamental. Desde sus inicios la antropologia social mexicana se relaciono intimamente con el proyecto de integracion nacional revolucionario, pero a fines de la decada de los cincuenta surgieron una serie de posturas criticas que ...