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.