El tigre escondido: Memoria ritual de los pueblos negros de la Costa Chica.

Huerta, Itza Amanda Varela

The article is a review of an academic popularization book written by Natalia Gabayet González, which explores the construction of the notion of personhood in the cultural creation of the black communities of the Costa Chica of Oaxaca and Guerrero, in Mexico. The book uses symbolic and ritual anthropology to analyze festivities, dances, and the importance of shadow and nahualism in the lives of these communities. It also criticizes the notion of "traces of Africanity" and highlights the importance of the devil's dance as an iconic element of Afro-descendant culture. The book raises questions about the centrality of childhood in Afro-descendant life, the impact of migration on Afro-descendant ontology, and the relationship between secrecy and anthropology.

GUERRERO (Mexico : State); OAXACA de Juarez (Mexico); MEXICO; ANTHROPOLOGY; COMMUNITY life; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); ONTOLOGY; RITUAL

Estudios Sociológicos, 2022, Vol 40, p189

0185-4186

Academic Journal

10.24201/es.2022v40nne.xxxx