About an irritating debate among northern anthropologists: Comments to the article by O. Starn

• Autor: Ansión, Juan
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 1992
• Institución: Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/809
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/809
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Orin Starn; debate historiográfico; ciencias sociales peruanas

Orin Starn's article, read from Peru, puzzles and irritates. Those of us who work from the social sciences to understand a country as complex as Peru and, at the same time, continue to bet on making it a viable country, have the right to ask ourselves about what motivates such harsh criticism of one of the best works that American anthropology has produced about a people of the Andes. We understand that, by focusing on Billie Jean Isbell's book, the author seeks to hit one of the most influential works of mountaineering, a current that is the final object of his criticism.