El antropólogo como aprendiz.A propósito de Carlos Castaneda y Las enseñanzas de don Juan, cuarenta años después [The anthropologist as an apprentice: Carlos Castaneda and The Teachings of Don Juan, forty years later]

Since the publication in 1968 of his first and best known book, The Teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda has evoked many kinds of opposing reaction. Looking beyond his contested ethnographic rigour, his texts –mainly his early ones— relate the development of an educational process, that of his own at the hands of a Yaqui shaman called Don Juan. This article describes this apprenticeship with the goal of characterizing the anthropological-educational model that underlies it. A rereading of the writings of Castaneda, from the distance of the time that has elapsed, suggests to us the necessity for social science to explore other horizons, other modes of thought, based on the awareness of the error and the insufficiency of the epistemologies governed by technological reason.