Abstract

DAPUEZ, Andrés Francisco. Mass, Promises and Commitment in a village in Eastern Yucatan. Catholic Sacrifice at the Church’s Margin. An. antropol. [online]. 2019, vol.53, n.2, pp.109-121.  Epub Nov 20, 2019. ISSN 2448-6221.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iia.24486221e.2019.2.68169.

Based on observation and participation in numerous cargo festivals in a town in the east of the state of Yucatan, this article concludes that the parishioners, self-proclaimed Catholic, and the Mexican Catholic Church use divergent but complementary notions of “commitment”, attributable to different sacrificial practices. To achieve a non-reductionist analysis of this concept it is necessary to incorporate some theological categories, such as “accommodation”. This text describes how both parties, Mayan-speaking parishioners and a Dominican priest, make a paradoxical accommodation of the sacrificial economy of the other, distorting it creatively.

Keywords : commitment; sacrifice; eucharist; Catholicism; offerings.