Abstract

ALVAREZ DIAZ, Andrea. Transformaciones en comunidades Maya-Mam de Huehuetenango, Guatemala: flujos migratorios y discursivos. LiminaR [online]. 2010, vol.8, n.1, pp.104-121. ISSN 2007-8900.

In order to analyze family dynamics in multiethnic contexts, one needs an approach that considers the complexity of social reality. In this sense, one of the challenges for anthropology consists in enriching the indigenous/ladino categorization, in a context of growing transnationalization and global movements of social groups, social imaginaries and information. This paper describes, in a maya-mam Guatemalan town, the new conditions of generational reproduction within social relation networks. In terms of social practices, we describe the density of population flow of certain networks in socio-cultural spaces geo-referred such as, from and to national urban centers, from and to the community, towards temporary agricultural productive spaces, and towards illegal jobs in foreign countries. In this network of population flow, of going and coming, we examine how some social discourses propagated, in a particular territory, the town of Colotenango, produce discursive spaces in whose gaps social subjects and their speeches circulate. Thus, considering the socio-cultural reality as a framework of symbolic and material social relations, we identify three social subjects who constitute the "knots" in this network, and who help the movement of people between those spaces, as well as the circulation of power and counter-power in the social and discursive spaces.

Keywords : Working migration; gender; social discourse; social subjects; power and counter-power.

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