Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América ( Latin America Otherwise )

Publication series ：Latin America Otherwise

Author： Rodolfo Kusch  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9780822392514

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822346418

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822346296

Subject： B Philosophy and Religion

Keyword： Indian philosophy -- South America., Indians of South America -- Religion., Indian mythology -- South America., Philosophical anthropology.

Language： ENG

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Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of thinking, which is deeply tied to Indian ways of knowing and being. Arguing that this binary cuts through América, Kusch seeks to identify and recover the indigenous and popular way of thinking, which he contends is dismissed or misunderstood by many urban Argentines, including leftist intellectuals.

Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is a record of Kusch's attempt to immerse himself in the indigenous ways of knowing and being. At first glance, his methodology resembles ethnography. He speaks with and observes indigenous people and mestizos in Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. He questions them about their agricultural practices and economic decisions; he observes rituals; he asks women in the market the meaning of indigenous talismans; he interviews shamans; he describes the spatial arrangement and the contents of shrines, altars, and temples; and he reproduces diagrams of archaeological sites, which he then interprets at length. Yet he does not present a "them" to a putative "us." Instead, he offers an inroad

Chapter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction: Immigrant Consciousness / Walter D. Mignolo

Translators’ Introduction / María Lugones and Joshua M. Price

Prologue to the Third Edition

Prologue to the First Edition

1. Américan Thinking

2. Understanding

3. Limit

4. Knowledge

5. Ritual

6. The Theory of the Turn

7. Divine Teaching

8. Indigenous Logic

9. Symmetry and Truth

10. Salvation and Economy

11. Salvation and Solution

12. Popular Thinking

13. Seminal Thinking

14. Seminal Economy

15. Infantile Seminality

16. Thinking the ‘‘Así’’

17. The Crossroads of Mere Estar

18. Recovering the Absolute

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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