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This text aims to present some ideas about Vasco’s work to construct alternatives to academic anthropology, which he argues, in the interests of scientific knowledge, presents aspects of indigenous life as the products of researchers, denying the Indians agency over their practices and authorship of their own knowledge, while ignoring the situation of subordination and exploitation in which capitalism has placed Amerindian societies. In this quest, Vasco has addressed, in his own way and without expressly attempting to do so in all cases, some of the problems that since the mid-20th century have caused theoretical ruptures and radical questioning within academic anthropology. Regarding the problem of the rationality or validity of indigenous thought, which structuralism settled by proposing unconscious structures revealed by anthropologists, Vasco affirms that indigenous thought is expressed as such, not as a science of the concrete, but as concepts that shape the endogenous way in which indigenous peoples think about themselves in their particular space and time. According to Vasco, biunivocal correspondences of form and essence, or of meaning and signifier, do not exist in indigenous thought; there is no such thing as what in the West is called representation; something can have several dimensions of existence either simultaneously or on separate occasions.
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