Abstract

LIFFMAN, Paul. Territorialization, Ritual Ideology, and the Virtual State of the Wixaritari. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2022, vol.17, e548.  Epub Mar 21, 2023. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2022.v17.548.

Using the work entitled Los wixaritari: El espacio compartido y la comunidad, [which can translate as The Wixaritari: Shared Space and Community] by Héctor Medina Miranda (2020), about the history and anthropology of the indigenous people of Gran Nayar, a region comprising the south of the Sierra Madre Occidental chain of mountains in Mexico, this paper addresses five general themes of sociocultural anthropology: 1) identity, location, and political organization of the cultural-linguistic groups identified in ethnohistorical sources; 2) territorialization theories, placemaking, and kiekari (“ceremonial space” or the domestication of space) that include the notion of land as property; 3) the organization of new indigenous settlements along an extensive area of Mexico, which have hardly been studied so far; 4) the nexus between ritual ideology and regional relations of power; and 5) the connection between what is known as “inventing tradition” and placemaking as a performative act in the historical process of ongoing reterritorialization.

Keywords : Wixaritari (Huichol people); territoriality; rituality; ideology; the State.

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