Artículo de revista
The truth of experience and its communication: Reflections on Mapuche epistemology
Fecha
2015Registro en:
Anthropological Theory 2015, Vol. 15 (2) 141–157
DOI: 10.1177/1463499614560947
Autor
González Gálvez, Marcelo
Institución
Resumen
This paper explores certain ideas among rural Mapuche people in southern Chile regarding the epistemological status of experience. Drawing on a notion I call the singularity of personal experience', I explore why each experience, as something inherently personal, is understood as always necessarily true. I then move forward to look at how this diversity of experiential truths is manifest in social life, giving it a characteristic sense of uncertainty. Finally, I examine how rural Mapuche people believe it possible to overcome this singularity of experience, in order to create a sense of collectiveness, by establishing and nurturing social relationships.