Antropologia de l'adolescència

The word ‘anthropology’ comes from the Greek anthropos, meaning human being, and logos, which could be translated as that which gives continuity to a discourse — as opposed to de facto contiguousness between the different parts. Therefore, anthropology refers to ordered, systematic thought about the phenomenon of human beings. In fact, however, anthropological discourse has been organized in various ways according to changing epistemological currents. Anthropology may be regarded as a natural science, a socio-cultural science or a form of knowledge about the meaning of human existence. This paper addresses this third definition: it considers human beings not so much as a natural, or psychosociological, piece of data, but rather as those subjects who seek that which they do not yet have, in the belief that it is precisely this seeking out of the “as-yetunrealized” which gives meaning to human life.