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Revista Alteridades
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Alteridad y pregunta antropológicahot!
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Esteban Krotz. Alteridad y pregunta antropológica
Alterity and the anthropological question.The situation of cultural contact is the place of origin of the “anthropological question”. The meeting between paleolithic groups, travel and imperial expansion are three exemplary forms of this situation. The “anthropological question”, whose central category is “alterity”, is a way of studying this type of situation. Thus, anthropology reveals itself as a specific way of conceiving socio-cultural phenomena which is different from other social disciplines.
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La antropologÃa y el nihilismo filosófico posmoderno hot!
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José Jorge de Carvalho. La antropología y el nihilismo filosófico posmoderno
Anthropology and the postmodern philosophical nihilism.This essay intends to make a critical assessment of the nihilistic posture (which currently characterizes a large part of the western intellectual universe) and its consequences on the relationship between philosophy and anthropology. It focuses on Gianni Vattimo’ work, The end of modernity, which, according to the author, will attain an important position in the postmodern philosophical panorama. In a second part it offers a discussion which reaches other anthropologists and philosophers, mainly seeking to asses if, in the so called postmodern era, this relationship between both disciplines can be presented in a more fruitful form.
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Purificar las palabras de la tribu. AntropologÃa simbólica y razón austerahot!
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Rodrigo Díaz Cruz. Purificar las palabras de la tribu. Antropología simbólica y razón austera
Purifying the words of the tribe. Symbolic anthropology and austere reason.The object of this essay is to controvert an old topic of symbolic anthropology: that which places symbolic actions as opposed to rational ones. It is argued that this topic assumes a simplifying conception of reason, in other words, all exercise of reason is reduced to austere reason, a type of reason which, by the way, has its own historic framework from where it emerged: that of an illustrated culture of a rigoristic type. An undesirable consequence of this contrast has been the characterization of symbolic actions as non rational, limiting the possibility of opening new and fruitful routes of research for symbolic anthropology. This essay first explores some materials which are constitutive of austere reason and of an illustrated culture of a rigoristic type; further on it makes some comments in regards to the counter-illustrated reaction and the aesthetic of romanticism; and it proposes some conjectures in regards to the influence of symbolism, particularly the type exemplified by Mallarmé- in the configuration of the above mentioned topic. Finally, it defends the emphatic notion of reason and an illustrated culture of an argumentative type.
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Sobre el concepto de percepciónhot!
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Vargas Melgarejo. Luz María. Sobre el concepto de percepción
On the concept of perception.This paper studies the concept of perception from an anthropological point of view. It is showed like a biocultural process of organization and elaboration of evidences through the which the social groups explain their environment; this process is mediated by collective references adjusted by sociocultural and ideological norms, this perspective is opposed to some psychologic and philosophic concepts in which perception in seen like a lineal and no historical process. This paper shows, furthermore, how the perception is in constant interaction with other view of reality levels, for instance the moral and esthetic ones, to the structuring of social order.
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