Abstract

HERNANDEZ REYNA, Miriam  and  CAMARILLO QUESADA, Julio Andrés. Reinterpretations of the Colonial Past in Contemporary Mexico. Diánoia [online]. 2024, vol.69, n.93, pp.155-181.  Epub Nov 01, 2024. ISSN 0185-2450.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704913e.2024.93.2091.

This article addresses the reinterpretations of the colonial past initi­ated in Mexico at the end of the 1960s as expressed by the opposition between indigenous memory and ethnocidal History. From a perspective of critical studies on memory, we show that this resignification of the past was shaped by the concept of ethnocide, coined by a generation of critical anthropologists to label colonialism and the ideologies of national homogeneity as crimes of cultural destruction. We also clarify the premises that they assume, such as the equivalences between the Holocaust and colonialism. Then, we explore the emergence of the idea of indigenous memory that problematically presuppose the survival of the pre-Hispanic past as a form of resistance to colonialism.

Keywords : ethnocide; identity; temporality; colonialism; indigenism; critical anthropology; indigenous memory.

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