Abstract

OLIVOS SANTOYO, Nicolás. The a priori of the indigenous community and its future orientation in two towns of Oaxaca, Mexico. Runa [online]. 2024, vol.45, n.1, pp.99-115.  Epub Feb 01, 2024. ISSN 1851-9628.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/runa.v45i1.12859.

The intention of this paper is to contribute to the debate opened by the anthropologies of the future and their assumption that the configuration of contemporary social and cultural dynamics can be causally designed from a future orientation. I take up the thesis to consider whether this approach can be applied to the indigenous community, knowing that this is the materialization of tradition and custom. Using some ethnographic examples from two indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, I sketch interpretative lines where I reconcile historical heritage, morphology and community, with orientations, social action and future. I start from the hypothesis that the common acts as an a priori of the action of subjects that orient, with their practices, the community towards possible futures.

Keywords : Anthropologies of the future; Indigenous community; morphology; a priori of the action; Oaxaca.