Pedro Hernàndez Luna, Tseltal Maya from the ejido Jerusalèn, Las Margaritas, Chiapas, holds a degree in Sustainable Development from the Intercultural University of Chiapas and a degree in Rural Development from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Xochimilco.He has published studies in numerous books on Indigenous science and knowledge, self-determination, lekil kuxlejal, interculturality, and Indigenous and community rights.
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“It Begins with Respect”
As sumak causay was brought to the awareness of the non-indigenous by Andean social movements a few years ago, now in Chiapas a generation of Indigenous scholars is bringing to light – theorizing, they would say – the local understanding of buen vivir: a concept articulated in Tseltal and Tsotsil as el lek’il kuxlejal.
August 23, 2019
