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The Culture of Marginality: The Teenek Portrayal of Social Difference

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: The marginality of the Teenek Indians of Mexico gives rise to discourses among this group that serve to justify its relegation to the fringes of modern life. Those discourses reflect a concrete, inexorable, social, economic, and political situation that is reformulated in the Teenek system of representation. This article explores the problem of constructing an ethnic identity as it is reflected in the realities and world views of the indigenous microcosm facing national society. (Mexico, Teenek [Huastec] Indians, ethnicity, world view)

Source: Ethnology

DOI: 10.2307/4153026

Author: Anath Ariel de Vidas

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Mondes Américains, École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Language: English

Topic: Indigenous Studies in Latin America

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1566672589

FWCI: 7.698

Cites: 30

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10