Beyond Latin Americanism and other Accidental/Occidental tourism: Guatemala (NS) in seach of cultural theory, and more

This essay focuses on the current malaise in Latin American studies. More generally, it discusses how dogmatic theoretical assumptions, specifically postmodern, impair productive critical diagnosis of rapidly changing reality, such as that of Latin America today. As a result, two very different imag...

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Main Author: Emil Volek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Talca 2005-01-01
Series:Universum
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-23762005000100014