La dynamique des représentations : frontières et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayas
Ethnohistorical sources from the Guatemala Highlands describe the Post-Classical period, at the dawn of the Spanish conquest, as a period of torment, fuelled by ceaseless conflict between groups that are sociopolitically distinct but have similar languages. And yet they share a common history that i...
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Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
2012-12-01
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| description | Ethnohistorical sources from the Guatemala Highlands describe the Post-Classical period, at the dawn of the Spanish conquest, as a period of torment, fuelled by ceaseless conflict between groups that are sociopolitically distinct but have similar languages. And yet they share a common history that is evoked in the form of migration stories and myths. Without questioning the truth of the historical facts that these may illustrate, we will see, thanks to certain passages from the Popol Vuh compiled in the 16th century and other texts from that period, that they served to subjugate several radical moments of rupture with the old world order, by redefining the boundaries of alterity and power relations in relation to a central authority whose identity was also displaced according to circumstances. In this case, questioning the relationship between myth and boundary comes down to examining the relation between myth and politics. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f885573c73ec4227ad9d2f5306c0a1662025-01-30T13:41:55ZfraLaboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie ComparativeAteliers d'Anthropologie2117-38692012-12-013710.4000/ateliers.9193La dynamique des représentations : frontières et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayasMarie Annereau-FulbertEthnohistorical sources from the Guatemala Highlands describe the Post-Classical period, at the dawn of the Spanish conquest, as a period of torment, fuelled by ceaseless conflict between groups that are sociopolitically distinct but have similar languages. And yet they share a common history that is evoked in the form of migration stories and myths. Without questioning the truth of the historical facts that these may illustrate, we will see, thanks to certain passages from the Popol Vuh compiled in the 16th century and other texts from that period, that they served to subjugate several radical moments of rupture with the old world order, by redefining the boundaries of alterity and power relations in relation to a central authority whose identity was also displaced according to circumstances. In this case, questioning the relationship between myth and boundary comes down to examining the relation between myth and politics.https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/9193powermythtraditioncrisisGuatemalamigration |
| spellingShingle | Marie Annereau-Fulbert La dynamique des représentations : frontières et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayas Ateliers d'Anthropologie power myth tradition crisis Guatemala migration |
| title | La dynamique des représentations : frontières et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayas |
| title_full | La dynamique des représentations : frontières et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayas |
| title_fullStr | La dynamique des représentations : frontières et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayas |
| title_full_unstemmed | La dynamique des représentations : frontières et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayas |
| title_short | La dynamique des représentations : frontières et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayas |
| title_sort | la dynamique des representations frontieres et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des hautes terres mayas |
| topic | power myth tradition crisis Guatemala migration |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/9193 |
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