THE SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE TEENEK IN TAMALETOM, TANCANHUITZ IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN LUIS POTOSI, MEXICO.

Abstract

With more than 500 years of resistance indigenous peoples refuse to disappear, on the contrary, they try to prevail demanding recognition as different cultures; although they no longer have their original purity, their persistence shows the face of rural Mexico that suffers the onslaught of westernized culture. In this sense, the present paper explains the social representations that remain in force to reaffirm the identity of the Teenek of Tamaletom despite the marginalization and exclusion to which the dominant culture relegates them. The resultsobtained account for the cultural resistance of more than five centuries in which external values and modernity have not eroded the cultural heritage of this original people, due to the persistence and reworking of traditional forms of life that grant them Sense of belonging to the territory they occupy

Keywords

• identidad
• cultura
• tradición
• modernidad