Places To Think With, Books To Think About Words, Experience and the Decolonization of Knowledge in the Bolivian Andes
Places To Think With, Books To Think About Words, Experience and the Decolonization of Knowledge in the Bolivian Andes
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玻利维亚安第斯山脉的思考场所、思考文字、经验和知识非殖民化的书籍
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2012
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Anders Burman
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Anders Burman
Drawing on his anthropological field work in Bolivia in the midst of profound social and political change, the author examines the attitudes of various interlocutors toward knowledge, and in particular the important differences between “hegemonic theories of knowledge and indigenous epistemologies, between propositional and non-propositional knowledge, between knowledge of the world and knowledge from within the world, or between representationalist and relational ways of knowing.” He stresses that there is “no absolute dividing line,” no “clear-cut dichotomies after almost 500 years of asymmetric and colonial intermingling of epistemologies and knowledge systems from different traditions.” Nonetheless, relational ways of knowing and indigenous traditions of thought continue to be systematically treated as inferior. However, they are still present and are currently making themselves felt at the university. (Less)