108 Int. J. Tourism Anthropology, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2018 Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Towards new paradigms in tourism fields: an anthropological perspective Maximiliano E. Korstanje Department of Economics, School of Business, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina Email: mkorst@palermo.edu Abstract: The present notes of research centres on the problem of fragmentation, which is experienced by tourism applied research in the recent years. Echoing the original claims issued by John Tribe –followed by many others scholars–, we discuss further on the socio-economic factors that prevented tourism its maturated and stylised form. Though we introduce a materialist viewpoint, echoing David Harvey, no less true is that the point is open to further debate, incorporating cultural viewpoints. The impulses and bursts of interest received simultaneously from social science but also by the theory of scientifisation coined by Jafar Jafari did not suffice to gain purchase over a maturated discipline. Even if followers of Jafari envisaged that the maturation of tourism hinged on the proficiency and prolificity of published works, this obscured more than it clarified. Nowadays, the epistemology of tourism is facing a serious crisis which needs immediate attention. Keywords: truth; reality; fragmentation; postmodernism; epistemology of tourism. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Korstanje, M.E. (2018) ‘Towards new paradigms in tourism fields: an anthropological perspective’, Int. J. Tourism Anthropology, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp.108–112. Biographical notes: Maximiliano E. Korstanje is a reader at Economics Department, University of Palermo. He serves as Book Series Editor in Advances in Hospitality, Tourism and the Service Industry, IGI Global Hershey Pennsylvania and an Associate Editor for Studies and Perspectives in Tourism, CIET Argentina. He is a foreign member of AMIT – Mexican academy for the study of tourism as well as advisory board of important academic publishers as Routledge, Springer, Cambridge Scholar Publishing and IGI global. His recent books include The Rise of Thana Capitalism and Tourism, Routledge, Terrorism, Tourism and the End of Hospitality in the West, Springer Nature, and Mobilities Paradox: a Critical Analysis, Edward Elgar among others. 1 Introduction Over the recent decades, tourism research led towards what Jafari (2001) dubbed as ‘the scientifisation of tourism’. Per his viewpoint, tourism experienced different stage, which oscillated from a precautionary towards a scientific-centred paradigm paving the pathways for the rise of an objective understanding of tourism. Though Jafari was quite