This text results from a previous article published in this journal. In line with Amerindian ethnology, I argue that Guarani identity can be better understood as “identity-alterity”: identity centered in alterity, in the exterior and in what is no own (such as Collas and Andean world). However, this internal exteriority of the Collas in Guarani world does not cancel the native relevance of the Colla/Guarani dichotomy. Both worlds (Colla and Guarani) are partially connected at certain times, and, at others, they separate emphatically. Similarly, there are relations of continuity and discontinuity between human and non-human. The native reflection on the sameness and difference, and on the different ways of relating to each other (between humans and non-humans), is more than an anthropological problem and has cosmopolitical implications.
Sarra, S. E. (2019). What is outside is inside. Cosmopolitical effects of a previous text. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (40), 153–161. Retrieved from https://revistachilenahumanidades.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/55752
