Temporalities in debate. Tools and reflections on how to deal with alterities

Abstract

In this work I am interested in reflecting on the way sof constructing and address alterities as a phenomeno nof know ledge in researchworks, in light of the readings on history and temporalities that have arisen in Historiography and Anthropology. For this, I will dwell on the theoretical debate between the structure-event and then the structure-agencyaxes that are derived from these ideas and I will framethe discussion within post-moderncriticism of the objectivist and subjectivist knowledge involved in the two great modern tendencies of Social Sciences (to which Historiography and Anthropology belong).

The importance of this reflection lies in the impact of theoretical currents as forms of academic production, that is, as sources of power with influence in the construction of social problems such as subaltern groups,including indigenous peoples. In this sense, the academy can reproduce situations of inequality and (in) visibility, or contribute with a critical, revisionist and overcoming view of its own trajectory and intellectual orientations.