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

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...

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Published in:Anthropological theory 2015-06, Vol.15 (2), p.141-157
Main Author: González Gálvez, Marcelo
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Communication
Epistemology
Mapuche
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Personal experiences
Rural areas
Rural communities
Social life
Social life & customs
Social relations
South America
Truth
Uncertainty
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Communication
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Rural areas
Rural communities
Social life
Social life & customs
Social relations
South America
Truth
Uncertainty
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