The gift of seeing. The initiation process and its implications for the Huichol worldview

Abstract

During the last two decades worldview has become a favorite topic of Mesoamerican anthropology to become commonplace. Persist, however, a number of problems that hinder the understanding of these collective over the world representations. Is worldview science or myth? intellectual property is "exceptional reporting" some "specialists" or a whole community? or is the product of the imagination of the researcher, who extrapolate and synthesize things about which often do not reflect Aboriginal ? (GALINIER, 1990:25).