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What makes a place ethnic? The formal and symbolic spatial manifestations of teenek identity (Mexico)
By: Ariel de Vidas, Anath.
Subject(s): Anthropology | Ethnicity | Boundary processes | Symbolic construction | Space | Teenek Indians | Mexico In: Anthropological Quarterly 81(1)Summary: The examination of boundary processes is a central issue in the study of ethnicity but this approach often favors external, socio-political boundaries that stem from historical forces at the expense of indigenous accounts about cultural differences. In this paper, I propose that Teenek symbolic spatial organization enables us to examine ethnicity as simultaneously a set of social relations & a structure of meaning. The analysis stresses the significance & contents of the dialogical relationships between external social boundaries & internal, symbolic ones. Analyzing the interrelation of both types of boundaries reveals how historical forces have shaped the cultural idiom in which Teenek people metaphorically apprehend their social interethnic configuration.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The examination of boundary processes is a central issue in the study of ethnicity but this approach often favors external, socio-political boundaries that stem from historical forces at the expense of indigenous accounts about cultural differences. In this paper, I propose that Teenek symbolic spatial organization enables us to examine ethnicity as simultaneously a set of social relations & a structure of meaning. The analysis stresses the significance & contents of the dialogical relationships between external social boundaries & internal, symbolic ones. Analyzing the interrelation of both types of boundaries reveals how historical forces have shaped the cultural idiom in which Teenek people metaphorically apprehend their social interethnic configuration.