a ntroPologías MundIales en CuestIón : dIálogos y deBates  gonzalo díaz Crovetto  Anthropology is what anthropologists do. That is to say, the boundaries as the distinctive features of the discipline vary with time. Changes in the world at large and in academe, anthropologists response to the changes, and their individual and collective initiatives all contribute to the dynamism of the discipline Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2003:1). … anthropological ideas do indeed respond to the contexts in which they are generated. They are not, however, mechanically relective of the encompassing political economy but emerge in a complex interplay among intellectual production, varied institutional settings, and the dominant value orientations of the time Eric Wolf (2001:63). Like other cosmopolitics anthropology reflects the historical dynamics of the world system, especially those related to the structure of alterity. This also means that theory in anthropology relects world politics and, by extension, that theory in anthropology is always/already political Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (2004:3). 1 Una primera versión de este trabajo fue expuesta en el Grupo de Trabajo Transferencia y Políticas de Difusión en Antropología de la VI Reunión de Antropología del Mercosur, realizada en Noviembre del 2005, en la ciudad de Montevideo. Agradezco los comentarios, sugestiones y criticas del Profesor Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, como también de mis amig@s y colegas Adolfo Neves de Oliveira y Paloma Sanches, y, en especial, Santiago Díaz Torres.. 2 Dr. (c) Antropología Social, UnB. Brasilia. Email: gdiazcrovetto@ unb.br