De la heterogeneidad, la historia de las ideas y la epistemología ch'ixi : puntos de encuentro

Abstract

Starting with the concept of heterogeneity —proposed by Antonio Cornejo Polar to explain the colonial condition of the history of Our America— his essay questions the concept of mestizaje as a way to hide social conflict. It also presents, at a theoretical level, some points of contact of this concept of heterogeneity with the History of Ideas developed by Arturo Andrés Roig and with the ch’ixi epistemology that Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui formulated on the basis of Quechua and Aymara practices of resistance and cultural affirmation.