Abstract

JUAREZ HUET, Nahayeilli B.. Curating the self: representing african ancestry. Encartes [online]. 2025, vol.8, n.16, pp.319-336.  Epub Jan 26, 2026. ISSN 2594-2999.  https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v8n16.432.

This visual ethnography reconstructs various forms of identification and self-representation that evoke African ancestry and its supposed somatic markers in diverse ways through photographs, interviews, life stories, and a dialogical analysis based on horizontal relations. In the regional, urban, and contemporary context of this ethnographic study, the Mayan has historically served as the predominant “other” and a foundational component of local identity. Drawing on the experiences and perspectives of a Yucatecan woman, the article explores how markers of belonging and identity operate within social hierarchies and self-representation, as well as the processes involved in appropriating or rejecting categories associated with those markers.2

Keywords : self-representation; identity; African ancestry; Yucatán; photo-elicitation.

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