Resumen

RAMO Y AFFONSO, Ana María. Modos de conocimiento: la lección de Castaneda. LiminaR [online]. 2010, vol.8, n.1, pp.155-172. ISSN 2007-8900.

In the present essay, we reflect about the anthropological practice and the impact of Carlos Castaneda's work in the relation between science and magic that anthropology (among other things) represents. Castaneda knows the impossibility to explain Don Juan's knowledge, the shaman that is his "informant" (and his master), out of his own terms, and this is why the Carlos Castaneda's anthropology comes to shake the scientific explanation of magic. Don Juan's words overflow Castaneda's anthropologic text and come to us with a strength that has enchanted thousands of readers, inside and outside anthropology.

Palabras llave : Shamanism; anthropology; ways of knowledge; reality; transformation.

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