Abstract

GARCIA GUERRERO, ALEJANDRO. INDIANIZACIÓN COMO PROCESO Y COMO DISCURSO EN CHIAPAS, MÉXICO. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2002, vol.38, pp.131-160. ISSN 0486-6525.

THIS ESSAY IS AN EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND A SOCIAL PROCESS IN WHICH THE MAYA indians of central Chiapas, Mexico, show their territorial, demographic, labor and politic advancement throw the discourse of their leaders. This is about an ethnic movement that integrate both dimensions of globalization process: the cultural homogenization and heterogenization of the world. The perspective adopted attempt to integrate the discourse analysis from a flexible and embracement viewpoint of the cultural production with the analysis of the regional indianization process like a complex interethnic system, in the meluccian sense of system. The principal objective is to explain with detail how the indigenous leaders use discourse -to persuade their followers and to the others- constructing a identity discourse based on meaningful past, organized in and for the politic present.

Keywords : Maya; indians; Chiapas; indigenous movements; political and ethnic discourse.

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