I have come to contradict. The worldview of today's indigenous peoples

Abstract

The essays gathered here, particularly those relating to the Nahua Chicontepec and Lacandon exemplify the limitations and successes of an ethnology that apparently scientific, guided prejudiced schemes with Western culture. Peeks This inertia as different forms of the same prejudice , neglect discourse in indigenous languages ​​, interest in the rites and not the prayer that accompanies or sustains , the vagueness of terms such as mythology, mythical, mythical times and especially , the feeling of superiority over the indigenous collaborators and only officiants that are turned into informants. scoops on the other hand , in trials of Ruben Morante and Johannes Neurath , are remarkable insofar as archaeological settle on concrete referents , rituals or designs on paper or fabric. When your analysis has a identifiable as a graphic document or verbal ritual , concrete interpretative sense ensure its sustenance and its contribution to the theme that the authors of these essays ambitiously called " worldview " of peoples Indians.