Revista Alteridades
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Alteridades No. 9 Abstractshot!
- Resumen de los artÃculos en inglés
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Celebrar a los santos: sistema de fiestas en el noroccidente de Yucatánhot!
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Francisco J. Fernández Repetto. Celebrate the Saints. Fiesta System in the Northwest of Yucatán.
Through the presentation of the main characteristics of the patron saint fiestas in the northwest of Yucatán, this article explores the concept fiesta system, as proposed by Chance, to describe and analyze patron saint celebrations that show a different organizational pattern from the Mesoamerican cargo system.
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Cosmovisión, tradición oral y práctica religiosa contemporánea en Tlalpan y Milpa Altahot!
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María Ana Portal Ariosa. Cosmovision, oral tradition and contemporary religious practice in Tlalpan and Milpa Alta.
This work explores some of the religious practices performed nowadays among the people in the areas of Tlalpan and Milpa Alta in Mexico D.F. With a comparative viewpoint, some myths and rituals related to religiosity are analyzed in regards to patron saints and to the still present practice of the worship of hills of Mesoamerican origins.
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Creatividad y sincretismo en un ritual yaquihot!
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Ma. Eugenia Olavarría. Creativity and syncretism in a “Yaqui” ritual.
Beginning with the ethnographic reconstruction of the belief and ritual system of the “Yaquis” from Sonora, this article presents and discusses aspects related to the specific situation of the religion of the “Yoremes”, in order to provide an approach to some of the concepts that have been handled in an ambiguous way regarding the ethnography of native groups from Mexico, for instance, religious affiliation and nonaffiliation, religiosity and syncretism, the statement that only a deep description of religious systems will establish the base for a conceptualization of what we know as a “notion” or in a merely descriptive way is firmly defended.
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