El Antropólogo como otro: conocimiento, hegemonía y el proyecto antropológico

• Main Author: Alejandro Castillejo Cuéllar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2005-12-01
• Series: Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
• Subjects: South Africa; trauma experts; collaborative research; micro-politics of knowledge production
• Online Access: http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/5/1.php

This text deals with the ways in which silence, and the grammar ofsilence, as a way of dealing with trauma, is determined by the historical conditions where it is embedded. One of the registers in which this silence operates has to do with a particular micro-politics of social research and knowledge production in South Africa that separates "testimonies" of war and "victims" (or sources of knowledge) from "trauma experts" in ways that reinstate a series of hierarchies. In this context, academic credentials, the language of exchange, and the implementation of noncollaborative research agendas are of great importance to understand the one-directionality of knowledge production aboutviolence.