Fictions and Truths in Counterpoint

This paper deals with the ambiguous boundaries between fictions and truths. Some literary texts are compared with ethnographical data from the author’s field work in Pindilig (Ecuador). In both cases the identification (which is not mimetism) is at stake. Then, the post-colonialist question about the “other voices” is seen through the spanish texts of the 16th century, when modern novel and anthropology were born, especially in the Garcilaso de la Vega’s work, La Florida del Inca.