The truth of experience and its communication: Reflections on Mapuche epistemology

Autor:	Marcelo Galvez
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Social life Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology media_common.quotation_subject Social relationship Sociology Experiential learning Order (virtue) Epistemology Diversity (politics) media_common
Zdroj:	Anthropological Theory. 15:141-157
ISSN:	1741-2641 1463-4996
DOI:	10.1177/1463499614560947
Popis:	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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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