| Journal: | Ludus vitalis |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000361279 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Authors: | Moszowski, Aaron1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, México, Distrito Federal. México |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Volumen: | 19 |
| Number: | 36 |
| Pages: | 153-169 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Teórico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | The Norwegian explorer C. S. Lumholtz, who in the late-nineteenth century realized four expeditions to the Sierra Madre Occidental, and in 1902 published Unknown Mexico, has been accused of being an “Orientalist” in the E. W. Said’s sense of the term. My main objective is to explore this thesis. I argue that, although Said misrepresented Orientalism as a foucaultian discourse, the viewpoint that underlies Lumholtz’s Unknown Mexico is more a gesture attuned to a post-colonial form of dependency |
| Disciplines: | Filosofía, Historia, Antropología |
| Keyword: | Doctrinas y corrientes filosóficas, Filosofía de la historia, Historia y filosofía de la antropología, Orientalismo, Lumholtz, Carl Sofus, Said, Edward W, Etnología y antropología social, Foucault, Michel, Expediciones, México |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
