time travel to the past or the future

 

Hi, in today blog i´m going to talk about time travel

When thinking about this I immediately would like to visit the past. The time of colonization of the Americas, because I am deeply interested in how the amerindian cultures lived and understood the coming of europeans. Their ideational representation of the world and understanding of these types of “outsiders”. There’s a quote from levis-strauss that goes something like “while the europeans were searching for a soul in the indian (amerindian) communities, the indians were drowning europeans to see if they had a body like theirs” That means that, being “human” or a “person” in europe is whether if you have a soul; and being human in amerindian communities is related to “having a body”. I would like to see and understand this type of thinking.

And also I would like to understand the different cultures that were living there. That is because today we don't have a lot of data to think about these societies and we don't have the archeological evidence to support current theories.

I definitely Wouldn't like to stay there, mainly because I am a way to advocate to give the information, notes and everything to the current researchers on these topics. And I need the current discussions to think more precisely about the contemporary world.

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