Indigenous Culture. An approach to the current Latin American reality

Abstract

This article analyzes some essential points to learn more about indigenous culture, seen from the legal, educational, economic and social scenario. In this meeting of knowledge, common points and mistakes of those researchers who over the years have contributed to the topic in question are identified and highlight that indigenous communities represent a part of society with significant cultural diversity. Therefore, the objective is the execution of a comprehensive analysis of indigenous culture, with a descriptive nuance aimed at the exposition and exemplification of the main concepts and theoretical bases referring to life in indigenous communities and their culture. A perspective is used from the qualitative, integral dimension, whose objective lies in the recreation and construction of its social panorama. As a result, a systematization of the fundamental contents is obtained that allows us to characterize, based on the fundamental pillars, the Indigenous culture, its need for social inclusion and how social differences bring disadvantages and injustices for them.