“Una gran revista mundial”

Runa and the practices of internationalization of Argentine Anthropology during Peronist nationalism (1948-1955)

Abstract

In this article I analyze the first series of the journal Runa (1948-1955), tackling its dual condition as a space of representation and agent of the practices of an international anthropological dialogue. Conceived by its first director, José Imbelloni, as a “world journal” and organ of the Instituto de Antropología of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Runa was born at the crossroads of a renowned academic career with the circumstances of the reorganization of the university undertaken by Peronism in 1947. I describe the editorial project of the director within the field of national and international Americanist anthropology, paying special attention to the logics of recognition deployed through the exchange of the journal with its counterparts belonging to the academic fields from Italy, Spain, the German countries and the United States. Finally, I reflect on Imbelloni’s wager to an autonomous academic production in light of the asymmetric internationalization of anthropological knowledge then in force.