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In this article I will present a critical reading off the wellknown Lascasian humanims whitin the philosophy in Latin American liberation. This reading was made at the end of the sixties, that is to say, it is located at the origin of this wellknown philosophical tradition that was later popularized in a more systematic way by the group of Argentine philosophers to whom the founding of said philosophy is usually attributed. We will find in the approaches of the Peruvian philosopher Augusto Salazar Bondy a reading that will include early on some postulates that could be closer to feminist philosophy and indigenist philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

José Carlos Mariátegui was the first true Latin American Marxist thinker. He was also the first to propose a Marxist reflection on the indigenous question in the continent: a reflection that not only attributed to the masses of indigenous peasants a decisive role as subjects of a social and revolutionary transformation, but also perceived in Indigenous traditional cultures one of the main roots of an Indo-American socialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper--part of a major research which has as objective the philosophy of legal colonialism in Latin America--is dedicated to examine the relationship between indigenism, revolutionary democracy, and counter-constitutional discourse, within the contemporary age in the Latin American context. Our main source is fictional literature, for it is an important constituent of the external legal culture. But it also takes account of the recent constitutional reforms in Bolivia and Ecuador. The methodology is exploratory and it has a critical point of view of the primary and secondary sources. For the reasons explained above, the results are partial, though they are essential to define the legal colonialism and to describe the challenges they expounded to Latin America legal culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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the indigenist novel in Colombia has developed in a similar way of its correlative ones in the Andean countries that typically represent the subgenre in the Latin American literary criticism. However, local criticism related to this kind of novel has shown evident limitations. A review of some representative critical studies shows at least three decisive problems: adherence to the nineteenth-century notion of Indianism, an excessive focus on representative works and the reduction of criticism to comments on specific novels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It has been more than five centuries since the Cross of Christ shines upon America. For America's early consciousness there did not exist a unity that was expressed in terms of nationality or continentality. Indigenism and Hispanicism were fused through mestizaje. With the construction of cities, the establishment of government and cultural institutions, Spain founded from the originality of the pre-Colombian universe, the New World. The result was a mixed Christianity, with magnificent achievements, but also with deficiencies in the incarnation of Catholic values within the cultural, social, and political dimensions of the people. The traditional Latin American ethos appears today threatened by the diffusion of a relativism that does not recognize natural inclinations of man: the truth, goodness, self-preservation, family, social life, justice, and friendship. The recuperation of lakes of faith requires a purification of reason organized by Ibero-American society that integrates the values of the Gospel in the present culture of our people so as to establish a human order and directed the social common good. [TRANSLATION]

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During the last two decades of the 20th century, indigenous groups mobilised themselves in many countries in Latin America with the aim of calling for various rights based on their ethnic status. This phenomenon is the subject that the author tackles in this article. To this end, he places the emergence of these movements in context, describes their characteristics, analyses their proposals and discusses the prominence that indigenous movements have acquired in different national political arenas. He also presents the impact that certain indigenous demands have had -such as those of the self-determination of land, the use of their own resources and the implementation of ethno-development- on the way in wbich politics is carried out (and understood) in Latin American countries. Finally, the text analyses how indigenous movements have become important social actors for the new left, and the ways in which they have developed new ways of organisation and mobilisation through networks, alternative discourses and new repertories of collective action. In view of all of this, the author concludes that Latin America has become, once again, a fascinating laboratory that is deserving of the attention of scholars, both in the region itself and in other parts of the planet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the relationships between indigenous Andean literature and testimony in the context of rural migration to urban centers from the middle of the 20th Century to the 21st Century in the Andes region of South America. It analyzes the depiction of migration as part of the process of Latin American modernization in Indigenist fiction. Latin American authors that are discussed include Antonio Cornejo Polar, José Carlos Mariátegui, and José María Arguedas.