Indigenous perspectivism

Abstract

The core of perspectivism –as the key assertion underlying this work– claims that social movements construct their own reality from their principles and program, and the resulting reality and discourses concern the set of everything that exists, from nature to technology including those strictly social elements. This view of perspectivism, however, will constitute a limited novelty, already seen in other processes. It is important to add –what is fundamental, that which is its essence in the strategic sense of the word– that the construction of such ontological perspective –and no only cognitive– is based on “devouring” the other culture, and the other civilization, with which it is confronted. Only then it will have a full sense of the diverse components of perspectivism that are analyzed here as structuring elements for social movements: performativity –that has been mentioned before– vincularity and aspectuality.

Therefore, the central thesis is that when indigenous people live and narrate their experiences from their own perspective, they are not only representing themselves, but also effectively creating their cultures; they allow the emergence and the continuity of their ways of life. In this sense we move pass the thesis of Jose SanchezPraga, to move from recognition to the constitution of indigenous communities.