¿Diversidad de visiones u homogéneas tradiciones analíticas? Debates académicos en el entendimiento de lo indígena en el Programa Nacional Etnografía de las Regiones Indígenas de México
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This paper analyses a number of definitions, perceptions and treatments of the so-called “indigenous” in a set of texts produced within the context of the National Ethnography Program concerning the Indigenous Regions of Mexico (PNERIM), as carried out by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The texts analyzed belong to the first two thematic sets of said Program: 1) Identity, Territory, Society and Migration; 2) Rituality, Cosmogony and Shamanism. These texts were created between 1999 and 2009 and published between 2003 and 2016. Some of the main topics around which we analyzed the understandings and assumptions regarding the indigenous are a discussion about ethnicity, the bond between language and ethnic identity, the analysis of traditional rituals and the concepts of cosmogony and shamanism. As a conclusion, the article strives for a semblance of balance, and proposes a number of critical observations pertaining to the collective production of the Program, in terms of the main focuses that so far have given it character.
Source: Diario de Campo
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220160109