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      Reflexiones acerca de una paradoja: el relativismo etnocéntrico del pragmatismo Translated title: Reflections on a Paradox: The Ethnocentric Relativism of Pragmatism

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          El problema de la relación entre relativismo y etnocentrismo es recurrente en el pensamiento antropológico. Se ha vuelto incluso un callejón sin salida, ya que la discusión que ha generado se empantana en tomas de posición normativa en torno a cómo estudiar y respetar la diversidad cultural. El artículo aborda dicha relación mediante una perspectiva pragmatista que si bien permite aclarar ciertos aspectos confusos en torno a dicho problema, introduce un sesgo epistemológico y normativo que denomino "centrismo crítico pluralista". Lejos de ser un tratado en sí sobre el pragmatismo a través del estudio del relativismo y del etnocentrismo, este artículo entabla una discusión con autores tan diversos como John Dewey, Clifford Geertz, Richard Rorty, Marvin Harris, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hans Joas, Donald Davidson o Ludwig Wittgenstein. Propone, por tanto, explorar posibles escapatorias a la sempiterna alternativa a: o bien todo es relativo o bien solo hay ciencia en lo universal.

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          The problem of the relationship between relativism and ethnocentrism is a recurring one in anthropological thought. Indeed, it has become a cul-de-sac, as the discussion it generated has become bogged down in normative posturing around the question of how to study and respect cultural diversity. The article approaches this relationship by adopting a pragmatist perspective that, while making it possible to clarify some of the more confusing aspects of this issue, also introduces an epistemological and normative bias that I call "pluralist critical centrism". Far from constituting a treatise on pragmatism through a study of relativism and ethnocentrism, the essay begins a discussion with authors as diverse as John Dewey, Clifford Geertz, Richard Rorty, Marvin Harris, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hans Joas, Donald Davidson and Ludwig Wittgenstein, in which it proposes exploring possible routes of escape from the eternal alternatives: either everything is relative or science exists only in the universal.

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                Journal
                rz
                Relaciones. Estudios de historia y sociedad
                Relac. Estud. hist. soc.
                El Colegio de Michoacán (Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico )
                0185-3929
                2448-7554
                2009
                : 30
                : 120
                : 21-63
                Affiliations
                [01] Zamora Michoacán orgnameEl Colegio de Michoacán México schaffhauser@ 123456colmich.edu.mx
                Article
                S0185-39292009000400002 S0185-3929(09)03012000002
                6cf5ebed-b4bf-4e60-ae2b-b40b352d4b7e

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 10 November 2009
                : 03 June 2009
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 63, Pages: 43
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                relativismo y reflexión antropológica,etnocentrismo,Pragmatismo,relativism, anthropological reflection,ethnocentrism,pragmatism

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