Abstract

TOLEDO PINEDA, Miguel Ángel Cristhian  and  CORAZA DE LOS SANTOS, Enrique. The Mam of Mexico and Guatemala: A Binational People between Autonomy and Heteronomy. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2019, vol.14, e369.  Epub Aug 07, 2020. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2019.v14.369.

This article approaches the discourse and practices of two organizations of the Maya Mam people located in the Mexico-Guatemala transborder region. On the one hand, there is the non-profit civic association called Conciencia Cultural Mam (Mam Cultural Awareness) in the municipalities of Unión Juárez and Cacahoatán, Chiapas State, Mexico, and, on the other, the Consejo del Pueblo Mam de Sibinal (the Sibinal Mam People Council) in the municipality of Sibinal, Department of San Marcos, Guatemala. The analytic approach that was developed considers the emergence of these two organizations, as well as the goals they pursue, using the categories of indigenous autonomy and heteronomy.

Keywords : indigenous identity; indigenous culture; ancestral authority; territory; transborder peoples.