Tlamatiliztli: The Wisdom of the Nahua People.
Intercultural Philosophy and Right to Land

The aim of this presentation is the systematic analysis of the concept of wisdom developed by the Nahua people of Mexico, based on historical sources and archaeological evidence, but also on the knowledge of contemporary indigenous communities and indigenous scholars. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the cognitive structures embedded in indigenous languages are useful in the development of an intercultural epistemology.

This line of research is based on a trans-disciplinary approach, which requires the rigorous implementation of diverse methodologies that originate from different disciplinary areas such as historiography, ethnography, iconography, philology and sociolinguistics. But the most significant issue is the implementation of collaborative research methodologies, which takes into account the theoretical framework developed by Nahua scholars (mainly historians and linguists). Also, another specific objective is to prove how indigenous philosophies are compatible with the use of digital humanities. For this reason, the study is related to interviews and innovative educational materials spoken in Nahuatl.

The academic relevance of this research not only lies in the rigorous and systematic approach to the issue of indigenous philosophies, which faces lack of recognition, but also because the attempt to analyze these indigenous philosophies is useful to provide alternatives to understand the world based on a different ontology.