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Purificar las palabras de la tribu. Antropología simbólica y razón austera
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cruz, Rodrigo Díaz |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Abstract | Un viejo topico mas o menos incuestionado en diversas corrientes del pensamiento y el quehacer antropologicos ubica a los actos simbolicos como opuestos a los racionales. Con mayor precision, se trata en realidad de un topico retorico “en el sentido de tema recurrente de cierta tradicion [o de diversas tradiciones] y como tramas de conceptos, y en ambos casos precondicionando la atencion de cierto modo en el discurrir argumental y, a la vez, guiandola” (Pereda, 1994b: 55). Cuando aludo al caracter “mas o menos incuestionado” de este topico, me refiero a que se trata de un contraste binario fuertemente arraigado que, como tal, se ha sabido constituir en un punto de partida incontrovertible, incuestionado, de la reflexion antropologica, precondicionando la atencion a veces de un modo dogmatico. Y algunos contrastes binarios en el ejercicio intelectual suelen suscitar vertigos reduccionistas: tienden a simplificar y sacrificar complejas continuidades y contradicciones a la estetica y a la molicie de pulcras oposiciones que, si no ciegan, por lo menos provocan cortedad en el alcance de la mirada. The object of this essay is to controvert an old topic of symbolic anthropology: that which places symbolic actions as opposed to rational ones. It is argued that this topic assumes a simplifying conception of reason, in other words, all exercise of reason is reduced to austere reason, a type of reason which, by the way, has its own historic framework from where it emerged: that of an illustrated culture of a rigoristic type. An undesirable consequence of this contrast has been the characterization of symbolic actions as non rational, limiting the possibility of opening new and fruitful routes of research for symbolic anthropology. This essay first explores some materials which are constitutive of austere reason and of an illustrated culture of a rigoristic type; further on it makes some comments in regards to the counter-illustrated reaction and the aesthetic of romanticism; and it proposes some conjectures in regards to the influence of symbolism, particularly the type exemplified by Mallarme- in the configuration of the above mentioned topic. Finally, it defends the emphatic notion of reason and an illustrated culture of an argumentative type. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://alteridades.izt.uam.mx/index.php/Alte/article/download/587/585 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
