Jürgen Golte was, in his own way, a dissident. But he was not consciously so. His way of doing research was not always a gesture of rebellion or a response to how anthropology was or is being today. However, it was also how he learned to identify interesting topics and then study them reflexively. Perhaps the conjunction of his early training at San Marcos and his German socialization allowed him to develop unrestrained and creative thinking, expressed in his anthropological works, with original findings and his own explanations that responded to the specific societies he interactively approached. He was a self-referential anthropologist, not anchored to simple localist and synchronic descriptions. Throughout his academic life, he was influenced by several authors, assimilating their contributions as resources to analyze the world around him, without overlooking the historical-social ch...

En plena conmemoración del Bicentenario de la Independencia del Perú, a la que él veía con escepticismo y le abría muchas interrogantes sobre las jerarquías y exclusiones sociales persistentes, Jürgen Golte dejó de existir terrenalmente el 29 de julio del 2021. Los aprendizajes de nuestro trabajo compartido, sus clases en las aulas sanmarquinas, su humanidad, las memorias de nuestra amistad y el impacto de su obra académica han impregnado mi quehacer antropológico desde que lo conocí, pero sin duda desde su partida me han interpelado con una fuerza dolorosa y a la vez regeneradora.