Abstract

POOLE, Deborah. Diferencias ambiguas: memorias visuales y el lenguaje de la diversidad en la Oaxaca posrevolucionaria. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2005, vol.47, n.195, pp.125-162. ISSN 0185-1918.

In this article, the author analyzes the nature of cultural identity, distinction, and belonging. Specifically, she deals with the role of visual icons-especially women's clothes-as the consensual markers around which a least two competing sorts of claims can be made for the simultaneously historical and material (or "genetic") qualities of culture itself: Memory ("signs of identity") and Belonging ("cultural identity"). In order to do this, the author begins with a brief discussion of a late Porfirian project to construct a visual inventory of Oaxacan culture. Then, she examines the role of women's clothes in the cultural projects of Oaxaca's revolutionary government. Finally, analizes a modern state sponsored cultural pageant in which women compete for the honor of being the "Maize Goddess" who represents Oaxaca in the annual folklore extravaganza of the Guelaguetza.

Keywords : identidad; etnia; cultura; historia; memoria; indígenas de Oaxaca; Guelaguetza.

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