Elements for rhizomatic writing and anthropology

Abstract

From the text of Deleuze and Guattari, entitled Rhizome, some reflections are developed around the possibility of rhizomatic writing and anthropology. To this end, the following expository axis is followed: 1) bearing in mind the sui generis character of a text as a rhizome (written as a plateau), some points are made on how that text could be addressed; 2) a rhizome is explained and exemplified in general, 2.1) the characteristics of a rhizome are developed following the same map proposed by Deleuze and Guattari: principles of connection and heterogeneity, multiplicity, allocating rupture, cartography and decal, 3) some of the implications a rhizomatic conception would have regarding scientific practice, 4) retaking the notion of the book set forth by the authors reflections on reading, writing in general and ethnographic writing in particular, 5) questions regarding in what sense anthropology is, or could be, rhizomatic, 6) contemporary capitalism is proposed as being tendentiously rhizomatic, and 7) reserve is advised against a posture pretentiously rhizomatic in the academic context.