Choquequirao

Cuando mis investigaciones sobre La Cristiada me llevaron a viajar por el occidente de la República en busca de eventuales raíces de inconformidad o de protesta populares, me encontre casualmente con el personaje de Manuel Lozada. Digo casualmente porque mi ignorancia era grande. Y fue entonces cuando leí, a fines de 1967, si mal no recuerdo, que: Hay allá, muy en el intenor de la Republica Mexicana, al extremo occidental del estado de Jalisco, una extensa comarca, sobre cuya faz y cuya historia han impreso un profundo sello de originalidad las lozanías y excrecencias de una naturaleza...

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Las sociedades indias, vistas durante mucho tiempo a través del prisma deformante de la literatura y el cine, siguen siendo el mejor ejemplo de la destrucción por parte del Occidente de culturas tradicionales. En lo sucesivo, los estereotipos tienden a desvanecerse a la luz de los trabajos históricos y antropológicos, como los de Philippe Jacquin: la identidad de los indios puede afirmarse con la reapropiación de su historia.