The proposals of the “ontological turn” for Anthropology: Latin American Anthropology and indigenous communities

• Autor: Soto Arias, Guillermo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/22269
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropia/article/view/22269
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Giro ontológico; perspectivismo amazónico; cosmopolítica; indígenas; campesinos; América Latina; Ontological turn; amazonian perspectivism; cosmopolitics; indigenous; peasants; Latin America

Nowadays, intercultural policies, the recent protests in Latin America that questioned the current economic model, and the environmental crisis have provided the propitious scenario for a greater visibility of indigenous and peasant voices. These have visibly positioned themselves as one of the main critics of the neoliberal model, which tends to negatively impact their ways of life. Given this, disciplines such as Anthropology have progressively questioned their historical and relational role that they have played with these actors, promoting the development of different proposals and theoretical approaches. One of these is known as the “ontological turn”, which over the years has become a set of diverse and highly controversial studies within anthropological discussion. Part of this academic group has carried out different investigations that try to question the whole modern rationalities and remove from their subordinate place other types of rationalities and ontologies. This text explores the most remarkable theoretical and political proposes of the “ontological turn”, made in the Latin American enviroment, to, subsequently, analyzes to what extent it can dialogue, from anthropological production itself, with current indigenous struggles.