Brujería en las sociedades "primitivas"

Abstract

This work analyze the meaning of witchcraft in some primitive societies, for example the Africans Azande or the huicholes of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico. Its central hypothesis is that logical-rational thinking, originated among the pre-Socratic philosophers, is not the unique mean through which is possible a coherent explanation of the reality. In this investigation it is assumed that witchcraft is an alternative logic to the occidental rationality, a mean of coherent and functional explanation of the world in which some indigenous societies are developing, like the previous ones mentioned.