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Para interpretar a Cliffor Geertz. SÃmbolos y metáforas en el análisis de la culturahot!
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Nivón, Eduardo y Ana María Rosas. Interpreting Clifford Geertz. Symbols and Metaphors in Culture Analysis.
This paper introduces the reader to the epistemological basis of the Clifford Geertz's work and its consequences for anthropological research. The first part explains his basic disagreements with traditional theory and the concepts of culture, as well as the philosophical tools of phenomenology from which his theoretical and methodological proposals are derived. The second section looks at American anthropology in two of the most important areas for the comprehension of his work: the symbolic field -that leads him to the necessity of a semiotic conception of culture-, and the correct methodologv for its study that leads him to a interpretive science.
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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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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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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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