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Fernando Monge
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Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Spanish
National University of Distance Education
Just a few comments and reflections to add to this Forum. Twenty years ago I joined an
interdisciplinary research team working on port cities. It was mostly composed of historians,
and my role was to approach the topic from an anthropological perspective. Most of the
information we worked with derived from written historical sources and reports and
documents relating to port agencies, ports and urban planning. We were far from the field in
chronological and spatial terms. It was quite a challenge, yet one similar in some respects to
those experienced by those who built this subfield.
As I started this project, I was familiar with the historical dimension thanks to my
doctoral work on a classic subject: Northwest Coast Indians as seen as by Eighteenth Century
