Abstract

NEWELL, Gillian Elisabeth; JIMENEZ GORDILLO, Nancy Karel  and  PEREZ LOPEZ, Enrique. Writing the history of carnival in Chiapas: A challenge of historiography, analysis, synthesis and (re)construction. LiminaR [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.1, e886.  Epub Sep 12, 2022. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v20i1.886.

As celebrations associated with Catholic and indigenous calendars, carnivals in Chiapas are occasions to gather, interact positively in a group setting, celebrate, and create semiotic resilience. To date, the systematic study of carnivals in Chiapas is an emergent field: Intraregional differences and similarities are still poorly understood, as are the carnivals’ regional development in historical, territorial, social, and ethnic terms. In this article, we undertake a historical analysis of carnivals in Chiapas by means of a bibliographical and historiographical systematization, a semiotic and symbolic contrastive analysis of 24 carnivals, and a proposed general timeline of the carnival phenomenon in Chiapas. The principal objective is to contribute to and strengthen the study of the carnival and to encourage a critical discussion of what this subject might offer to a new type of “other” history.

Keywords : Mayan culture; Zoque culture; regional history; indigenous peoples; intangible heritage.

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