Abstract

PEDROZA GARCIA, Ruhama Abigail. Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua: The City of Three Cultures? An Example of an Imagined Community in Northern Mexico. Nueva antropol [online]. 2018, vol.31, n.89, pp.24-42. ISSN 0185-0636.

This article deals with the process of building the “folklorist” imaginary of a community that defines itself as intercultural, composed of three sociocultural groups: Mennonites, Mestizos, and Rarámuris. This imaginary stems from an “official discourse” in the municipality of Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, which tries to justify the social processes that are the basis of interethnic relations in the region. Through the material differences, as well as the diverse capabilities of self-governance and political negotiation of each of these groups, it is possible to observe the social tension characteristic of these interethnic relations, in an everyday complexity which questions the official discourse that masks the hierarchy and differences that exist among these “three cultures.”

Keywords : interculturality; Mennonites; Rarámuris; interethnic relations; Ciudad Cuauhtémoc.

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