Abstract

COLLIN HARGUINDEGUY, Laura. Folkloric identity and reclaiming good living. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2015, vol.10, n.19, pp.4-27. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2015.19.43.

Cultural relativism has prescribed respect for other cultures practically since its beginning. In spite of this, at least since the last four decades, following the Barbados Meeting, a large number of anthropologists have taken on the revaluing of ethnic cultures as part of our work. Both academia and applied anthropology have approached this task with projects aiming to retrieve cultural heritage. Furthermore, it is in part due to our work as anthropologists that indigenous peoples have tended to identify cultural heritage, culture and identity. This article addresses the need to overcome a folkloric vision of culture and identity and thus move toward revaluing the implicit logic, as supported by the buen vivir ‘good living’ proposal.

Keywords : ethnic cultures; alternate rationalities; buen vivir; cultural heritage.