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In this paper, the author subjects the narrative of "interculturality" to a critique from an intercultural perspective, invoking the critical potential of intercultural philosophy in contrast to a culturalist "interculturality" light. The background of this analysis is the epistemic violence exercised by the West in the fields of knowledge, science, and education. This violence is particularly noticeable in the case of philosophy, leading to a sort of "philosophical homicide" (philosophicide) with respect to indigenous philosophies such as the Andean one in the case of Abya Yala. The paper concludes with some guidelines for the challenges that a critical intercultural philosophy must face in the XXI century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the twenty-first century progresses, renewed theoretical developments and critical reflections are broadening explanatory horizons of cultural traditions that seemed to have already been sufficiently studied. Andean culture, consolidated as an exclusively highland phenomenon, offers a privileged field of study for problematizing the status of established knowledge. This paper discusses the Altiplano exceptionalism attributed to Andean cultures based on two masterful interventions, that of the French anthropologist Thierry Saignes, and that of the Peruvian writer Gamaliel Churata. While Saignes first pointed out the urgency of repairing the "radical ignorance that we have about Andean-Oriental societies" (Los Andes orientales: historia de un olvido); Churata explored an inter-Andean cultural circuit that both Peruvian and Bolivian historiography had made invisible: the prolific (and yet uncanny) interaction that since pre-Hispanic times was practiced between the eastern and western flanks of the Andean mountains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]