ABSTRACT
The knowledges that the discipline of anthropology describes and represents in monographs and particularizes as other peoples’ cultures are knowledges that have their own claims to universalist knowledge status. Epistemologically, ethnopsychologies are universally framed, thus making the prefix ‘ethno’ rather awkward. Through this universal frame of reference, people from another culture can understand and phenomenally even experience the suggestive ethnopsychological metaphors in their very body-consciousness. It might be argued that making a critical comparison between the ideas of an indigenous culture and one seventeenth-century European thinker is inappropriate as we are not comparing like with like. Once Descartes’ certainty of a thinking self had been established, he tried to restore the logical certainty of the existence of the rest of the world.
