Abstract
In this article I will attempt to outline the developmental stages of Argentine social anthropology and anthropology in a broader sense, both in the context of the formation of social sciences in Argentina alone (in the narrower La Plata area) and in the context of social scientific thinking. I will focus on the transformation of the academic environment in the social and humanistic sciences that occurred approximately from the turn of the 50th and 60th of the 20th century, when fighting between the different representatives of a more modern (Arica, Schmukler) with representatives of the traditionalist-oriented "biologizing" ethnology (Menghini, Bormida).
In addition, I will notice a strong political influence on the establishment of anthropological disciplines in Argentine universities (Peronism, the dictatorship of the military junta in 1976-1983) and followed by a period when they were gradually restored old branches and establish new and when there was some sort of decentralization anthropology and other disciplines (creation of new departments also outside Buenos Aires - Córdoba, Rosario, Tucuman etc.). In conclusion, I would like to briefly pay attention to some of the newer trends in Argentine social anthropology, exemplified by Eduardo Archetti and draw the attention to the older and newer expressions of national identity (football cult, tango), etc.