Open AccessACCESSING KNOWLEDGE IN A DISCONTINUOUS WORLD. A BRIEF COMMENT FROM SOUTHERN CHILE
Author(s) -
Marcelo González Gálvez
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the unfamiliar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2050-778X
DOI - 10.2218/tu.v3i1.138
Subject(s) - ethnography , institutionalisation , ontology , epistemology , sociology , psychology , anthropology , philosophy , psychiatry
Drawing on my ethnographic experience with rural Mapuche people, in this paper I attempt a twofold comment regarding the topic of ‘Accessing knowledge’. This comment firstly, problematizes our own understanding of what can be loosely labelled as ‘the world’; and, secondly, challenges the social emphasis of our notion of knowledge, which eventually is what permits its institutionalisation and thus its restriction. Finally, this discussion will lead us to the debate concerning the relationship between ontology and epistemology, which, as I argue, should be solved through an always-contingent ethnographic solution.