Intercultural Communication Studies XV: 2 2006 Corona & Perez-Daniel Towards a Concept of Interculturality Based on Praxis: The Seminar and the Youth Library Sarah Corona & Rebeca Perez-Daniel, University of Guadalajara, Mexico Introduction Widely popular cultural strategies, among them the editorial policies for youth, have shown their limitations in being able to foster fundamental aspects of intercultural relations such as respect towards others, dialogue, agreements, pacts and tolerance. The project for the book collection “Among voices ... tell me” seeks to partially make up for these limitations by being a venue to discuss certain current topics in the global context, as well as the local strategies, their survival and the changing world of Wixaritari and western youth. The topics put forth in this book collection will allow us to advance in the understanding of modern western and indigenous practices and in this manner will encourage the understanding of the numerous dimensions which permeate intercultural relations. Based on the research on indigenous communicative forms that the senior author has been conducting for the past 8 years in the Huichol communities of San Miguel Huaixtita and San Andrés Cohamiata (Corona 2001, 2004), in addition to the academic evaluations conducted on Wixaritari and western youth, I have proposed an intercultural youth library. In a parallel manner, I seek to theorize on intercultural communication and education with the construction and analysis of this project as a starting point. Firstly, I shall briefly describe the way the seminar operated in order to then make some observations regarding intercultural relations and producing joint texts for young people. Based on 8 questions considered of current interest for the indigenous and western youths, 10 Wixaritari professors and 10 western professors were invited to participate in an intercultural seminar in order to assemble a library for young people. The first were teachers at the Tatutsi Maxakwaxi junior high school, with experience in teaching youths and the latter were professors at the University of Guadalajara and the Autonomous University of Querétaro, considered specialists in the topics under consideration. Eight topics of current interest were selected with the objective of compelling today’s youth to question themselves regarding their needs, concerns and interests. These topics are work and money, beauty, addictions, love and sexuality, the histories of Mexico, health, law, justice and social coexistence and communications and politics. Another aspect taken into consideration was the current importance of the topics as opposed to the concept, frequently utilized in textbooks and the mass media, where references to indigenous culture are limited to the historic and ethnic past, far removed from the current situation of contemporary indigenous peoples. The seminar lasted 20 hours and took place in a hotel in the city of Guadalajara. The participants, invited in their role as “researchers”, had previously prepared a brief text on one of the 8 topics. After a general presentation of the goals of the seminar and the particular interest of each of the participants, an explanation on books for children and older youth and indigenous books in particular was presented. The contents and formats of national and 231