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- Title
"They will come from the other side of the sea": Prophecy, Ethnogenesis, and Agency in Yaqui Narrative.
- Authors
Erickson, Kirstin C.
- Abstract
For Mexico's Yaqui Indians, ethnic identity is both represented and renegotiated in narrative moments. In this article, I examine the process of narrative self-fashioning through the lens of the "Talking Tree," a story that portrays Yaqui ethnogenesis as a reaction to a prophecy of Spanish conquest. I contend that this narrative accords the Yaquis a level of agency that ordinary histories do not, refiguring them as informed actors in the determination of their own destiny.
- Subjects
MEXICO; ETHNICITY; YAQUI (North American people); ETHNIC groups; TALKING Tree, The (Book); FATE &; fatalism
- Publication
Journal of American Folklore, 2003, Vol 116, Issue 462, p465
- ISSN
0021-8715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jaf.2003.0056