Los hongos alucinantes: apéndice de la literatura mexicana indigenista y crítica a la disciplina antropológica

Abstract

: We analyze the book Los hongos alucinantes (1964), by Fernando Benítez (1912-2000), through three main approaches: first, as a successor and reformer of the Mexican Indigenista Literature of the 1950s; second, as a border text between literature, journalism and ethnography, in which Benítez “authorizes” himself through specific strat - egies; third, as a critical text of the anthropological discipline. Strongly influenced by the counterculture of the time and by Literary Indigenismo, Los hongos alucinantes imitates