Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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¿Construcción o simulacro del objeto de estudio? Trabajo de campo y retórica textualhot!
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García Canclini, Néstor. Construction or Simulacrum of the Object of Study? Field Work and Textual Rethoric.
What is the importance of the construction of the text in the elaboration of information obtained in fíeldwork? The analysls of problems of the epistemological sense of anthropological work has grown during recent years due to questions on the textual strategies and institutional condltions by which knowledge is organized and communicated. This article will complement the discussion and these aspects carried out by posmodern anthropologists of the Unites States with the socio-Institutional criticism developed by Pierre Bourdieu and will examine the meaning of such approaches in relation to the conditions of anthropological work in Latin America.
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Reflexiones en torno a "¿Es pre-racional el pensamiento simbólico?" de Dan Sperberhot!
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Varela. Roberto, Reflections about "Is Symbolic Thought Pre-rational?" by Dan Sperber.
The essay presents with some lenght Sperber's thesis that "symbolic thought is necessarily built after a previous rational treatment". Although in general terms Sperber's position is accepted, a critique is presented concerning three themes: the fírst deals with the defícient recognition it gives to Turner and Lévi-Strauss; the second, the principle that "all representation can be invoked by any stimulus in determined conditions"; third, the basic epistemological problem: "similarity" and "contiguity", contrary to what Sperber apparently holds, aren't empirical concepts.
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Viaje, trabajo de campo y conocimiento antropológicohot!
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Krotz, Esteban. Journey. Field Work and Anthropological Knowledge.
So called fieldwork has often been seen as one of the principal distinctive marks of sociocultural anthropology, but its eplstemological and methodological status is not clear. This essay refers to the metaphor of a journey in the early writings of the philosopher Ernst Bloch in order to discover some key aspects of the production of anthropological knowledge based on fíeldwork that is not limited to positivist empiricism. Instead it is centered on the confrontation of changing alterities and identities, parts of a global sociocuItural process, to which the researcher himself belongs.
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El espÃritu en sà mismo: Claude Lévi-Strauss y el idealismo crÃticohot!
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Pérez, Sergio. Spirit in Itself: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Empirical Idealism.
The series Mythologicals by Lévi-Strauss ends wlth a set of hyphotesis about the structure of the human spirit that holds a clear link with critical idealism. The purpose of this paper is to examine this link with no intention of placing value judgement on the work of the ethnologist, but to reach a close understanding of the role that philosophy plays in the work of a social scientist.
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