Those who understand the time Graniceros front ends or the Sierra de Texcoco

Based on the collective memory of a series of communities and on ritual practices carried out today in a clandestine manner, this article analyses some ritual specialists which are chosen by lightning in the Sierra de Texcoco, using ethnographic evidence and field observations done by the author.  T...

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Autor: Lorente Fernández, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/12983
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/sociales/article/view/12983
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:graniceros
weather specialists
Nahua cosmology
collective memory
historical heritage
Mesoamerica.
especialistas atmosféricos
cosmología nahua
memoria colectiva
profundidad histórica
Mesoamérica.
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Sumario:Based on the collective memory of a series of communities and on ritual practices carried out today in a clandestine manner, this article analyses some ritual specialists which are chosen by lightning in the Sierra de Texcoco, using ethnographic evidence and field observations done by the author.  The text describes these ritualists’ particularities in the context of the local cosmological system and contrasts them with existing «graniceros» in other areas of Mexico. The article covers four main elements: the nature of recruitment, the initiation, the specific roles of these atmospheric ritualistic and their social situation in the communities of the Sierra de Texcoco, a Nahua region close to Mexico City with a remarkable historical depth and a sense of memory that is reflected in representations and ritual practices that have been played creatively for a long time path.