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QUESTA, Alessandro. Mountains in resistance. The Masewal worldview in the face of climate change and extractivism. Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol. [online]. 2018, vol.25, n.72, pp.123-143. ISSN 2448-8488.

For the Masewal people of Santa María Tepetzintla, in the Sierra Norte de Puebla (Mexico), the world is broken. According to their worldview, the cosmos was originally fragmented by an envious god who broke the pillars connecting the sky and the earth in two, the remains of the said act are the mountains where they now live. However, today the world is facing new forms of destruction -erosion, drought and economic poverty- diagnosed by the Masewal indigenous people as a bi-product of human activity. The Masewal peasants consider that they have abandoned the spirits of the earth to pursue economic ambitions. As a result of this new worldview, even the old gods can become victims. The response of the Masewal people has been to rekindle their relationship with the spirits in the hope of reversing these consequences and thus return to a renewed mythology of interdependence.

Palavras-chave : Masewal; worldview; migration; mining; resistance.

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