ssue is not so much st
Contact:aying the s
ame, b ut maintaining sameness through alterity.
The available his
tories of the Cuna shed strange light on the logic of this process, for by remaining resolutely "themselves," resolutely alter vis a vis old Europe as well as-note clearly-its black slaves, the Cuna have been able to "stay the same" in a world of forceful change. Time and again this (appearance of) persistent Cuna sameness has been pointed
out,
- in sharp contrast
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- to the conventional liberal trope
- of nostalgic despair about the eclips
- e and extinction of Indian societies fr
- om Alaska to Tierra del Fuego,
- due to what is seen as the in
- evitable path of
- cultural destr
uction on a
- ccount of Western religions and moralitie
- s, land-grabbing. Western diseases. Western langua
- ge. Western cloth
es. Western junk f
- ood. Western a
- lcohol. W
- estern haircuts, and,
more often than not, Western mirrored
