This work has the pretension to realize some reflections on the categories of the anthropologic knowledge that are situated after the offer of a hypothetical " visual anthropology ". Trying to put besides in relation the problematic that this hypothetical subdiscipline raises, with others that concerns to the anthropologic knowledge in more general levels.
Visual anthropology: "the gordian knot" of description and interpretation.
Abstract in spanish
Keywords: visual anthropology,anthropological knowledge,problems of visual anthropology.
Author: José Palacios Ramírez. Doctor en Historia de América, Universidad de Granada, España.
E-mail: jpalaciosr@uat.edu.mx
Received: January 17th, 2005,
Accepted: June 10th, 2005
Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual - número 5 - Santiago, Julio 2005 - 143/150 pp.- ISSN 0718-876x. Rev. chil. antropol. vis.