Abstract

ESTRADA FERNANDEZ, Zarina  and  GUTIERREZ ESTRADA, María Rebeca. Discursive practices in the construction of identity: the life remembrances of a Yaqui woman. Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol. [online]. 2019, vol.26, n.74, pp.67-86. ISSN 2448-8488.

This article analyzes the life history of a Yaqui woman. Speech becomes a space whereby the narrator offers a testimony through which she expresses her appreciation of the Yaqui world, along with her identification with it. In the discourse itself, one can observe her acceptance of the role she plays through her discursive practices. The discourse itself allows the woman to self-construct herself as a person that positively influences the younger members of her community. The narrative of Anabela -or Jeka Ania as the protagonist prefers to name herself- interweaves a journey of remembrances through which the appreciation of the ancestral culture of her people and the imaginary world of the Yaquis is highlighted. This analysis emphasizes the rhetorical skills of the protagonist, the discursive practices that reflect the appreciation of her ethnic affiliation, her confrontation with all that is non-yaqui -or the yori-, along with her identity as a Mexican. Jeka Ania’s narrative skills are most striking when she is attending two types of audiences: those who invited her to recite her life story, and the Yaqui youth in general.

Keywords : Discursive practices; ethnic identity; rhetorical skills; Yaqui woman.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )