期刊名称：Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares
印刷版ISSN：1988-8457
出版年度：2008
卷号：63
期号：1
页码：37-74
DOI：10.3989/rdtp.2008.v63.i1.47
语种：Spanish
出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：The postmodern perspective, which began its influence on studies of Prehispanic Peru in the 1980s, has resulted —as chief positive effect— in reflection and debate concerning the written sources for apprehending such cultural otherness, the so-called “Chronicles of the West Indies”: a perspective accompanied by new editions of these texts. The author of the present article expresses his own reflection on such change in theory and method. He argues that, with regard to self-reflectivity on its epistemological foundations, the new perspective is not entirely original in the long history of Andean ethnohistory; in effect, this approach is almost as old as the field itself. What is indeed original is the cognitive relativism that surfaced in some extreme forms of the discussion. It was an unfortunate development, however: when not denying, as a matter of principle, the very possibility of understanding that cultural otherness, arguments masked actual interpretations or explanations of its features that were protected, ipso facto, from a rigorous process of validation.
关键词：Postmodernism;Prehispanic Peru;Chronicles of the West Indies;Selfreflexivity;Epistemic Relativism;Posmodernismo;Perú prehispánico;Crónicas de Indias;Auto-reflexividad;Relativismo epistemológico
