El indio, la antropología y la muerte del Hombre. Una ontología "mexicana" del presente.

With the aim of outlining an ontology of the present, this article follows the transformations of anthropology in Mexico in search of its political and epistemic conditions of enunciation. The Mexican government of the 19th century dedicated multiple efforts to correctly populate the territory, that is, with a healthy, educated and civilized population. At the beginning of the 20th century, indigenist policies promoted the acculturation of indigenous peoples, but this acculturation was later denounced as ethnocidal by a new generation of anthropologists, defenders of self-managed indigenism and, later, of the valorization of identities as human capital by neoliberal methodology. Scientific evolutionism gave way to a communication paradigm, the epistemic foundation of many contemporary policies. It is the very embodiment of the Foucauldian theme of the death of Man as a way of knowing, and the illustration of a new episteme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]