Resumen de La carga teórica de la mirada antropológica: El gesto “orientalista” en el México desconocido de Carl Lumholtz
The theory-ladenness of anthropological viewpoint: the “Orientalist” stance in Lumboltz´s Unknown Mexico.The Norwegian explorer C. S. Lumholtz, who in the late-nineteenth century realized four expeditions to the Sierra Madre Occidental, and in 1902 published Unknown Mexico, has been accused of being an “Orientalist” in the E. W. Said’s sense of the term. My main objective is to explore this thesis. I argue that, although Said misrepresented Orientalism as a foucaultian discourse, the viewpoint that underlies Lumholtz’s Unknown Mexico is more a gesture attuned to a post-colonial form of dependency. Key words: Carl Sofus Lumholtz, Edward W. Said, Orientalism, theory-ladenness of observation, visual regime.
