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QUINTANA, Humberto Leopoldo. Anthropology and economy: economism as culture. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2004, n.24, pp.177-205. ISSN 1668-8104.

Nowadays any observer of the political and social reality has noticed the strong tensions that exist between the "world of economists" and "people's world". In this paper, we pretend to find out about the relationship between economy and culture, this theme is of much interest to many disciplines, buy we will concentrate on the relationship Economic Sciences and Anthropology.    In this paper two basic questions are treated as axes of connection between Economics and Anthropology. The first is connected to Anthropology, its place, and the methodological issues it is confronted with when treating the economical question. The latter is referred to a reflection, from economy perspective on a central theme on the behaviors of the economical system, which is a cultural system widely considered in Anthropology, but not the same intensity as economy.    Economy is not only a scientific discipline its action is not only part of the academic world or economic relationships, but it has criteria when observing reality, and premises as regards human values, and a particular way of reasoning and thinking, extending to all fields of human life, having a way of swing things as well as having a particular perspective of reality. This characteristic defines a culture which we call "economism" which differs from "economicism" since the latter is a monetary reductionism of the former.    In the connection of economy with other disciplines as well as other culture aspects, economism puts economy and its "vision" on a central place, readily assimilated to ethnocentrism. The attempts of approximation between economy and other disciplines, abandoning the central position of economy, they were shown as an intention to become horizontal such relations, as the cultural relativism pretends. In such a way, economism presented as another culture, respectful of others.    Finally, we try to show that economism emerges from social relations, we form part of a dominant culture, only some sectors participated in such groups, and it was expanding as relations among economic sector were changing. Under this legitimate look of economism, an ingenuous perspective of transdisciplinarity is fairly judged, and economism is seen as a cultural relativism.

Palavras-chave : Economism as Culture.

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