“Yo no sabía si amaba más al puente o al río”: torções ontoepistemológicas em José María Arguedas / “I Didn’t Know If I Loved More the Bridge or the River”: Ontoepistemological Twists on José María Arguedas

Resumo: A proposta aqui apresentada e proveniente de algumas tensoes possibilitadas pela leitura de Jose Maria Arguedas, aos 50 anos de sua morte, a partir dos debates de autores da “virada ontologica” e do “giro epistemologico” na producao do conhecimento antropologico. Neste sentido, retomo o livro Los R ios Profundos (1958) de Arguedas e coloco em dialogo com preocupacoes acerca dos Earth Beings. Tomo, tambem, a metafora do Pachachaca de Romulo Monte Alto (2011) e as inquietacoes epistemologicas, portanto politicas, da teoria critica anticolonial latino-americana, em especial a categoria ch’ixi de Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. Meu objetivo, deste modo, e evidenciar as ressonâncias entre as preocupacoes ontoepistemologicas (DE LA CADENA, 2015) da antropologia com a producao de uma narrativa literaria arguediana. Palavras-chave: antropologia; ontoepistemologias; literatura; Jose Maria Arguedas. Abstract: The proposal presented here stems from some tensions made possible by the reading of Jose Maria Arguedas at the 50 years of his death, from the debates of authors of the “ontological turn” and the “epistemological turn” in the production of anthropological knowledge. In this sense, I return to the book Los Rios Profundos (1958) by Arguedas and put in dialogue with concerns about Earth Beings. I also take the metaphor of Romulo Monte Alto’s Pachachaca (2011) and the epistemological, therefore political, concerns of Latin American anticolonial critical theory, in particular Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s ch’ixi category. My goal, therefore, is to highlight the resonances between anthropology’s on-epistemological concerns (DE LA CADENA, 2015) with the production of an arguedian literary narrative. Keywords: anthropology; ontoepistemologies; literature; Jose Maria Arguedas.