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Miracle and Social Space in the Nahua Village of La Esperanza, Mexico
Author(s) -
Anath Ariel de Vidas
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ateliers a/ateliers du lesc
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1954-3646
pISSN - 1245-1436
DOI - 10.4000/ateliers.9229
Subject(s) - miracle , humanities , art , narrative , ethnology , history , philosophy , literature , theology
Le récit d’un miracle dans la montagne proche du village nahua de La Esperanza, dans la Huastèque veracruzaine au Mexique, constitue la seule narration rapportée dans ce village au sujet de sa fondation. Cette narration, loin d’être ancrée dans des temps immémoriaux, se situe explicitement au milieu du xxe siècle et relate les offrandes à la montagne qui ont mis fin à plusieurs années de sécheresse. Or, l’analyse de cette seule histoire, mythique, permet finalement de mettre au jour celle, historique, du village. Elle révèle ainsi de manière simultanée l’éclatement et la délimitation des frontières sociales et politiques de ce groupe indien local. The story of a miracle on the mountain near the Nahua village of La Esperanza, in the Veracruzan Huasteca in Mexico, constitutes the only narrative offered in this village on the subject of its foundation. This narrative, far from being rooted in ancient times, is explicitly set in the middle of the 20th century and tells of offerings to the mountain, ending several years of drought. And yet, the analysis of this single mythical story ultimately helps shed light on the historical story of the village. It simultaneously reveals the fragmentation and delimitation of the social and political boundaries of the local Indian group

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