«El irracional es el otro»: Los mecanismos de la interpretación en Antropología

• Autor: Ricard Lanata, Xavier
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2005
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/80502
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/1018/980; https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.200501.001
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Análisis hermenéutico; Diálogo intercultural; Cultura andina; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.04.03

This article examines two dialogues between the anthropologist and alpaca shepherds of the Ausangate mountains (Cusco region, province of Canchis). Parting from the description and analysis of the concrete interpretation mechanisms used in the anthropological discipline (establishment of a lexicon, logical inferences, etc.), and of its consequences (in particular, the attribution of a pre-rational or irrational mentality, on behalf of the anthropologist, to his farmer-indigent interpreters), the article proposes reflection on the methodological obstacles for an adequate anthropological interpretation of the other cultures. It attempts in this way, to contribute to define, from the hermeneutic practice of anthropology, methodological protection that guarantee the constitution of real spaces of intercultural dialogue.