ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on certain limitations of the desire for intercultural dialogue. It relies on data gathered through interviews with teachers and students from a pan-Andean educational initiative on interculturality. The representation of the Ayoreos at the beginning of the chapter is an apt illustration of how certain spaces and bodies are perceived as modern in relation to others that are deemed as not. The chapter discusses that there are seemingly few exceptions to the conceptual and terminological premises to interculturalidad, in contrast to interculturality, privileged enough to pass as universal. Interculturalidad, explains a middle-aged female student interviewed in Urubamba, a small town in the Peruvian highlands, allows different indigenous cultures to view and interpret the world through the lens of their own beliefs in their own languages. The differences between the concepts become even more apparent when focusing on the practical role of language as part of an intercultural dialogue.
