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ROZO L., Bernardo E.. AN ETHNIC ECONOMYIS AN ISOLATED ECONOMY? EMPIRICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF A RELATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Textos Antropológicos [online]. 2003, vol.14, n.1, pp. 183-190. ISSN 1025-3181.

It has been stated that societies without history do exist. This asseveration implies that societies that have keep themselves intact and without any evident relation with others exist. The present work, pretends to demónstrate that this isjust an academic fetish ofthe Positivism. Ipretend to reflect empirically that it is not always true that the penetration ofthe market economy in a indigenous community is a sufficient condition to consider its disappearance. We assert that the alone presence of any economic aperture indicators (like the wages, the commerce, and the circulation ofcash), are not enough conditions to establish thatfor example, an economy is in a clear transítion to apeasant category. With the case of communities studied in the zone of Lomerío (Department Santa Cruz, Bolivia), I use the concept of "ethnic economy" in the sense that it doesn 't establish the "local" as a closed or isolated context.