THE NIGHT BOMAN SAW COQUENA

Abstract

To observe and describe different worlds is an impassionating task but a very complex one. And complexity can be stated with a question: How do I say from my perception of the world that that has significance in other cultural spheres? Only inside the space of culture, communication processes are possible; that is, the processes through which things obtain sense.
Outside this space, only a space of the chaotic can be perceived. It is for that reason that in this judgement we intend to state de dissolutions or fractures that arise at a discursive level in the descriptions made by Eric Boman in his journey along the Puna Jujeña. To transit the space of the American Other hand in hand with the archaeologist takes us to begin a voyage through the boundaries
of culture. When we say boundary, we are entering a zone of transactions and cultural translations from which the producing subject can with difficulty come out unpolluted. Thus, we pretend to show in which way the scientist discourse disarranges and in which way participates of the circuit of belief production, without being a believer himself. In other words, we will try to describe that night in the puna in which Eric Boman met Coquena.