Descripción:
This article looks at the work of Natalio Hernández, modern Mexican Indian philosopher, who sees himself as a cultural intermediary between two worlds. Hernández is concerned about the effects of five centuries of cultural domination over the indigenous groups of the Americas, and urges that Indian voices be heard in an effort to rebuild an Indian America and a multi-ethnic Mexico in the third millennium. Though written in Spanish, the author hopes the article will have relevance to the náhuatl culture, by means of a ritual discourse urging the reconstruction of collective memory, the rebirth of ancient concepts of time and space, the maintenance of oral history and the utilization of powerful symbols to confront the cultural "other."