Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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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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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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¿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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