Aculturación de los Indios de México

Abstract

Abstract/Description:

Maria Frankowska’s essay discusses the processes of “acculturation” of Mexican cultures. The processes of mixing cultures and ethnic groups are described as beginning in the distant past and as continuing to the present. Frankowska uses numerous examples from pre-Columbian periods, starting with interactions between the barbaric Chichimeca and the civilized Tolteca. The various interactions between Spanish and indigenous populations are then described to portray another example of another kind of acculturation. The situation of indigenous cultures in relation to Modern Mexican culture is then described and the author claims that different stages or phases of this acculturation can be still observed in Mexico.