Aculturación religiosa en Sierra Gorda: El Cristo viejo de Xichú
During the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries, the Sierra Gorda region of central-north México remained a cultural border zone between Mesoamerican and Aridoamerican traditions; as well, this area provided the site for the development of local cultures, often characterized as marginal in terms of the h...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios de Historia Novohispana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/3574 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://novohispana.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ehn/article/view/3574 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | religious acculturation cultural border marginal culture religious syncretism ethnic identity indigenous religiosity Man-God Otopames Chichimecas Sierra Gorda aculturación religiosa frontera cultural cultura marginal sincretismo religioso identidad étnica religiosidad indígena hombre-Dios otopames chichimecas |
| Sumario: | During the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries, the Sierra Gorda region of central-north México remained a cultural border zone between Mesoamerican and Aridoamerican traditions; as well, this area provided the site for the development of local cultures, often characterized as marginal in terms of the hegemonic culture that existed in the central areas of New Spain. In Xichu de Indios, one of the villages in this region, various conditions converged (such as the presence of multiple ethnic groups and the weak control maintained by the Church and government) which led to complex processes of acculturation and religious syncretism that found their ultimate expression in the appearance of Man-Gods. The syncretic religiosity of the matted roots Otopameethnic group that inhabited Xichu arrived at a later point in time and provided a vehicle for the expression of a strong identity with hints of autonomy and anti-Spanish elements that, as a result of the reforms promoted by Gálvez in the eighteenth century, was persecuted and repressed. |
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