Qom epistemology: nowledge production in an overcrowded environment
In this work, it is intended to ponder the ontological perspective as an analytical means to describe other or native epistemologies. This ontological characterization, of ethnographic strain, is thought to possess heuristic potential to challenge other scientific ways of producing and validating kn...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/intersticios/article/view/28454 |
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| Sumario: | In this work, it is intended to ponder the ontological perspective as an analytical means to describe other or native epistemologies. This ontological characterization, of ethnographic strain, is thought to possess heuristic potential to challenge other scientific ways of producing and validating knowledge about cultural realities other than the one it describes. The existence of a Qom epistemology is postulated, theoretically availing ourselves of the distinction that Viveiros de Castro makes between an objectivist epistemology (properly Eurocentric and scientistic) in which knowing is objectifying (that is, removing from the object of knowledge everything that - improperly projected in it- it would belong to the knowing subject) of a shamanic epistemology (properly cosmo-centric and animistic), where knowing is personifying.
In an open, co-extensive and overpopulated world of intentional beings, the way in which Toba men and women acquire, produce, validate and transmit knowledge is inscribed in peculiar epistemological / ontological parameters; dreams, signs and interviews are original access routes to knowledge and power (which is a “know-how”) while thoughts and spoken words act as channels of communication, knowledge and action. |
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