Resumen

AMODIO, Emanuele. A Foreigner in a Strange Country: The Construction of the Past and Historical Reality From an Anthropological Viewpoint. Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.2, pp.141-157. ISSN 20030507.

The construction of the past satisfies multiple cultural and psychological necessities, since each human group elaborates its historical interpretations responding to its current preoccupations. The author explores the ways these historical constructions are produced, trying to distinguish the search for identity from the production of knowledge, and proposes an epistemological platform that enables him to delimit a possible field for an historical anthropology.

Palabras clave : History; Anthropology; Identity; Epistemology.