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- Title
Montañas en resistencia. Cosmopaisajes masewal ante el cambio climático y el extractivismo.
- Authors
Questa, Alessandro
- Abstract
For the Masewal people of Santa María Tepetzintla, in the Sierra Norte de Puebla (Mexico), the world is broken. According to their worldview, the cosmos was originally fragmented by an envious god who broke the pillars connecting the sky and the earth in two, the remains of the said act are the mountains where they now live. However, today the world is facing new forms of destruction - erosion, drought and economic poverty - diagnosed by the Masewal indigenous people as a bi-product of human activity. The Masewal peasants consider that they have abandoned the spirits of the earth to pursue economic ambitions. As a result of this new worldview, even the old gods can become victims. The response of the Masewal people has been to rekindle their relationship with the spirits in the hope of reversing these consequences and thus return to a renewed mythology of interdependence.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change; EMIGRATION &; immigration in Mexico; MEXICAN economy; MYTHOLOGY; INDIGENOUS peoples
- Publication
Cuicuilco Revista de Ciencias Antropológicas, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 72, p123
- ISSN
2448-8488
- Publication type
Article