Olivia Kindl is a professor-researcher in the Anthropological Studies Program at El Colegio de San Luis. Born in Paris, she has a degree in Ethnology from the National School of Anthropology and History. She obtained the National Prize "Fray Bernardino de Sahagún" for her thesis "The Huichol jícara: a Mesoamerican microcosm". Her PhD in Ethnology was awarded by the University of Paris X-Nanterre. His research has focused, from the anthropology of art and theories of ritual, on the analysis of the visual arts of the Wixaritari (Huichol), which he compared with those of the Coras, Tepehuanes and populations of the Potosi highlands. More recently, his analyses have been linked to the theories of the performance and the anthropology of techniques. He has also ventured into ethnoarchaeology and historical anthropology. His scientific and popular works have been published in Mexico, France, Germany and the United States. For more information, see https://www.colsan.edu.mx/p/nu_acad.php?str=25

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Perspectivism: a theory from the point of view of otherness?

  • Gabriel Luis Bourdin
  • Olivia Kindl

  • moderator Arturo Gutierrez del Angel

Keywords: otherness, ontological turn, Perspectivism, Philippe Descola.

For some, perspectivism is a revolution in anthropological thought, while for others it is not a theory, but rather an ideology forged by bringing into the arena of discussion old, unearthed and outdated paradigms that were long ago superseded.