Violencia y devoción: Acercamiento etnográfico a los barrios de una comunidad Maya de Campeche

Abstract

This paper, essentially descriptive in nature, tries to be a first approach to intraspaces in an indigenous community of the Mexican state of Campeche. If traditional ethnographies on the Mayan Peninsula have considered the community as the minimum unit of analysis, what I intend is to focus on those areas ethnographic called «neighborhoods» (barrios). To do this, based on field data obtained from first-hand community Nunkiní Maya (Campeche), I focus on two main issues. First, using local tradition, I try to explore the historical origins that explain the division and bitter enmity that has occurred between the northern and southern populations. I offer also a superficial approach to chapels and the civic-religious societies that have emerged around them to celebrate the saint that each neighborhood has creating a special belonging feeling among neighbors.