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Los hacedores de mapas: antropologÃa y epistemologÃa. Una introducciónhot!
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Díaz Cruz. Rodrigo. Map Makers: Anthropology and Epistemology. An Introduction
Thls artlcie sustains that in the production of anthropological knowledge. 1t is not feasible to defend the relativistic positions that repeatedly have appeared In the history of anthropoloy. However, this has not been enough to reduce the amount of epistemological problems that relativism. has exposed: that of inconmensurability, that of crosscultural translation, that of apparently irrational beliefs, and that of rationality among others. In this paper the author tries to elucidate the nature of this problems and the theoretical and practical aplications that they pose to this discipline.
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La racionalidad y la interpretación de las culturashot!
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Lara Zavala, María Pía. Rationality and the Interpretation of Cultures.
This paper deals with the problem of interpretations in social science and, particulary in Anthropology. I analize Habermas theory of a modern horizon in which the subject is already aware of a differentiation of spheres of value and questions reality from a hypothetical point of view. Then the paper deals with Maclntyre conception of interpretation and a special category that is called "the second first language". Maclntyre works show in a very precise manner that translations from one culture to another are only partial because we cannot separate from our own point of view. The third author analized here is a well known antifoundationalist. Richard Rorty's work is against any kind of pressuposition that deals with essence, truth and a privileged place to analyze any other culture. While these three perspectives can have some good groundings for the problems of interpretation alien cultures, the paper tries to show some of the consequences of the main assumptions of the three authors. As a result, we can see how when one questions interpretations of reality we are already engaged in a modern horizon. In the second step, we can see that our interpretations are always partial and they need some way of translation into our culture: and the third step, is to show how our points of view are recognizable as ethnocentric even if we don't intend them to be so.
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Definiciones, indefiniciones y pequeños sabereshot!
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Menéndez. Eduardo L. Definitions. Lack of Uncertainties and Petit Knowledge.
In this article, first I discuss in an eplstemologlcal perspective, the difference between Social Anthropology (SA) and other Social and Historical Disciplines. Next, I explore the current "crisis" In SA. I conclude that there's no evidence to support this dlfference and it is suggested that "crisis" is the "normal" condition of SA since the mid-1960s. This crisis expresses itself in SA's research through issues such as the definition of the object/subject, and its methodological and interpretive approaches.
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Algunas consideraciones sobre la naturaleza cientÃfica de la antropologÃahot!
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Falomir, Ricardo. Too Soon or Too Late...? Some Considerations about the Scientific Status of Anthropology.
The paper looks at dlfferent ways in which social and cultural anthropologist consider the scientific status of their discipline. The perspective of Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. EvansPritchard, Clifford Geertz and Angel Palerm are considered. The selection does not pretend to be representative of schools or traditions within the field, rather it demostrates a) some of the different conceptions of the scientific status of the discipline and b) present problems that refer to the specificity of anthropological knowledge. A perspectlve that at the same time accounts for the specificity of social sciences vis a vis natural sciences and attemps to achieve formulations of a general theoretical character is proposed.
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