Culturas: realidad, teoría y poder

In this book, the author intends to study the concept of "cultures," underlining the plural and renouncing the singular. With this theoretical and political exercise, Rodrigo Montoya avoids giving in to the western notion of "culture," which highlights its uniqueness and is confused with "high culture" and fine arts. In this way, a decolonial position is assumed, to the extent that diversity and conflicting heterogeneity, characteristics of our reality, are accepted. The classical anthropological notion of "culture" is evoked, as a way of thinking, living, being and feeling of the peoples; and it is identified with the struggles of the ethnic and political movements of the Latin American Indians who, only in the last third of the twentieth century, were able to raise their voices and claim for their rights.

Introducción -- Capitulo I. Teoría, pensamiento crítico y poder -- Capitulo II: Itinerarios del concepto "cultura" -- Capitulo III: El complejo mundo de la cultura como realidad vivida y conocida -- Capitulo IV: ideología y cultura: deformación interesada e invención de la realidad -- Capitulo V: Todas las lenguas y culturas del Perú -- Capítulo VI: Critica de la metáfora del mestizaje cultural -- Capitulo VII: ¿Cómo cambia la cultura? -- Capitulo VIII: Culturas, historia y poder -- Capitulo IX: Cuando la cultura se convierte en política -- Capitulo X: Gueto académico de las ciencias sociales y realidad social -- Capitulo XI: Un ministerio de Cultura -- Capitulo XII: Potencialidad política de los movimientos indígenas para descolonializar América Latina.