Phenomenological Anthropology and Ontological Turn
Crossed lives or Parallel paths?
Keywords:
Phenomenology, Ontological Turn, Representation, Reflexivity, EpochéAbstract
This article shows the parallels and divergences of the ontological turn and phenomenological anthropology. Both currents, in fidelity to ethnographic data, share the rejection of the regime of representation and both currents bring into question the epistemic commitments of the researcher. However, the ontological turn presents a conceptual orientation, which often leads to typology, while phenomenological anthropology deals with the perceptive relations of the life world from a hermeneutic openness.
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