Between Living Past and Elusive Modernity: Politics of Identity and Politicization of Anthropology

Abstract

This paper outlines the most essential aspects of anthropological activity, such as its subject and its interest. In this case we will focus on the category of Other, which distance researcher from his subject. In this article we will analyze some anthropological & philosophical approaches connected with understanding of Other category, such as Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism and Pierre Bourdieu’s critical approach. Anthropology always touches on the problem of politicization, when it shows the difference between cultures. During this research we will try to understand, which transformations occurs in the modern anthropology and which role the problem of politicization plays in this process.