El reto de pensar la perspectiva cualitativa aplicada en antropología física

Abstract

New formulations on Physical Anthropology are answering to uncertainties that delineate new ways to built data. We consider that this knowledge’s field grows in complex ways where it’s impossible to disregard demolishing processes, and also the new ways to embark the economic, politic and socio cultural reality that hu-man bodies inhabit. Bodies, though, are resisting being simplified or homogenized throughout metric. Given the situation, new questions seem to be arising, privileged by the development of an origination potency of a relevant matter: the reformula-tion of dichotomies between mind-body, biology-society, and biology-culture that go along with the epistemological transformations over the bodies, and in turn, exert an influence on devising being made by physical anthropologists. Nevertheless such matters have echoed without an accurate pondering of what does it mean to recognize what does the creative potency of the human bodies truly implies. The interaction, transaction, negotiation and renegotiation that these bodies constantly generate through adaptation with their environment, are actions that can only be understood by facing the challenge to be thought from a qualitative perspective. Through the teaching and knowledge construction processes on physical anthro-pology that are being built in the National Institute of Anthropology and History, inah, we are aware of the tendency to search for the qualitative data without having the adequate conceptual and methodological orientation. As such we believe this is actually one of the most important challenges Physical Anthropology has. Some of the elements to be considered in this new challenge are delineated.