Abstract

GUEVARA SANCHEZ, Brenda Griselda. Inter-Communal Disputes over the “True” History of the Indigenous Community of Zirahuén. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.160, pp.194-211.  Epub Nov 19, 2020. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v40i160.598.

From 2012 to 2015, important transformations occurred in the leadership of the indigenous community of Zirahuén, Michoacán, Mexico. Under those conditions, what the members of the community, and groups linked to them, argued as the history of their community was constantly reconfigured and disputed. Based on a linguistic exercise that analyzes different versions of the community’s origin, the objective of this article is to problematize the hypothesis that the past was produced as a sign that simultaneously conditioned and was conditioned by the current discourse of the individuals who recounted that history, not as a reflection of what “really happened”. This ongoing reconfiguration of historical discourses, which I analyze as memories, conditioned interpretations of the community’s history and, therefore, of its political organization as well. From this vantage point, I propose the notion of history in production and politics.

Keywords : History; discourse; community; production; memory.

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