Abstract
In 1995, Professor Armin Geertz presented a paper at this Congress in which he very succinctly outlined some of the post-modern chal lenges to the study of religion which face contemporary scholars.2 In that paper, he re-emphasized his call for an ethnohermeneutic approach to the study of religion. As I understand it, this approach seeks to overcome the oppositional poles of positivist and herme neudc inquiry by locating and making explicit the perspectives of both researcher and subject of inquiry in the production and the presenta tion of knowledge. In this paper, I want to address how this ethnohermeneutic approach to inquiry fits into my own research agenda, as an ethnog rapher and anthropologist. I also want to outline some of the dilem mas I have encountered in attempting to apply the method which Professor Geertz advocates. If my presentation emphasizes concerns and questions more than answers and insights, it is because this is very much a work in progress. The context of my research is the following. For more than fifty years, an ancient tradition of shamanic healing in northern Peru has been studied by Peruvian and international investigators alike. In this
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