De la violencia mítica al « mundo flor ». Transformaciones de la Semana Santa en el Norte de México
From mythical violence to « flower world »: transformations during Holy Week in North Mexico. During Holy Week in western and northwestern Mexico – among Yaquis, Tarahumaras, Coras, and Huicholes – ceremonial centers become the stage of a conflict between beings associated with the Christ-Sun and th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/542 |
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| Summary: | From mythical violence to « flower world »: transformations during Holy Week in North Mexico. During Holy Week in western and northwestern Mexico – among Yaquis, Tarahumaras, Coras, and Huicholes – ceremonial centers become the stage of a conflict between beings associated with the Christ-Sun and those associated with the underworld. This conflict ends in a process of ethnogenesis. The trigger of this conflict is the transgression of the protagonists and the point of arrival is the return to cosmic harmony and the propitiation of abundance: the « flower world ». Despite the evident differences both in religious ethos and in cosmology, an ethnological comparison shows how the four cases analysed here refer to the same structural model in which the role of the mediators is essential for seeing how the negative characteristics of one pole become beneficial for the community. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |