Transculturación, transmodernidad y traducción. Una mirada latinoamericana sobre la Europa del siglo XXI

Abstract

The great European metropolises are immersed in unprecedented processes of cultural and social transculturation. In this context, we propose to reverse the traditional Eurocentric view as an epistemological strategy and to study the new European social and cultural realities from Latin America. We emphasize the interest of the trans-Approach to understand the complex anthropological reality of a globalized world. Our reflections focus on three concepts: Transculturation, trans-modernity, and translation. Regarding the latter, we propose to rethink the Eurocentric theories, favoring instead the perspectivist paradigm, which allows for the deconstruction of the hierarchical dichotomy original/copy that defines as an impure, inferior syncretism the products of the transculturation processes. By way of example, we will refer in our analysis to Brussels, seat of the European Union and capital of the Belgian State.