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Estudios sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas ISSN: 1405-2210 [email protected] Universidad de Colima México González Varela, Sergio Armando Antropología y el estudio de las ontologías a principios del siglo XXI: sus problemáticas y desafíos para el análisis de la cultura Estudios sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas, vol. XXI, núm. 42, noviembre, 2015, pp. 39-64 Universidad de Colima Colima, México Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=31642649003 Abstract This article analyses the so-called “ontological turn” in anthropology, its limits and contributions as well as its criticisms and challenges to study cultural alterity. The text describes the historical and philosophical foundations of the studies of “ontologies”, through the main representatives of this movement in British, Brazilian and French anthropologies; it also describes the recent impact of ontological studies in the new millennium in the United States and Latin America. Although it is by no means a unified theoretical movement, the variety of authors related to the studies of ontology is very broad. There - fore, the article focuses on the contributions of the anthropologists Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Philippe Descola, Martin Holbraad, and in authors who have been in some way influenced by them. Finally, the text addresses criti - cally the limits of the concept of radical alterity in ontological studies, the problem of practice, and the notions of cultural closeness and distance as basic principles of this type of anthropology. Keywords Ontology, Culture, Alterity, Practice, Nature, Anthropology How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Scientific Information System Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative