The Anatomy and the Biology as read-imposed body-text

Abstract

The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s are a period of great change for the countries of Central America in political, national, cultural and educational fields in general. Our proposal is not strictly historical, but we won't forget the marks of historicity in the textbooks that refers to transcripts and representations of different cultural identities in this region of the world. To not fall into the trap of an common exhortation to a contemplative and presumptuous miscegenation, it should be noted that the various elements of a combination is never free of tensions, hierarchies and demonstrations of power and domination. In order to question the manifestations of what we call miscegenation in reading textbooks, we chose to present the textbooks covering the years 1980, 1990 and 2000. The diasporic experience changed considerably Central America; uprooting, enslavement, colonization, immigration and exile are made, contrary to what you might think or read, by a violent discontinuity. Paradoxically, this same slavery "unified" people beyond the differences that used to oppose them. To try to decipher how cultural identities are represented and represent themselves, mestizos or not, so we'll see, we favor a lesson that incorporates all the reading textbooks of elementary school, the description of the body and its five senses.