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ROBICHAUX, David. Dances in the early stages of mexican sociocultural anthropology: Approaches and analytical frameworks. Trace (Méx. DF) [online]. 2023, n.83, pp.53-80.  Epub 11-Dic-2023. ISSN 2007-2392.  https://doi.org/10.22134/trace.83.2023.873.

Unlike other countries where anthropology paid little attention to dances, in Mexico they were the subject of several ethnographies in the first decades of the twentieth century. This paper examines the analytical frameworks and approaches of these pioneering works on dances, namely those of Nicolás León, Elfego Adán, Auguste Genin, and Manuel Gamio, as well as his assistants in the Teotihuacán project, Roque Ceballos Novelo and Carlos Noriega Hope. Moreover, unlike other studies, the Mexican ethnographies contextualize the dances and emphasize their religious character. They all agree on this aspect and always compare contemporary dances with the rites of pre-Hispanic times. Despite associating the dances with a type of religiosity considered to be bordering on the pagan -especially in Gamio’s writings- the information collected on the dances in the first decades of the twentieth century constitutes an invaluable ethnographic heritage.

Palabras llave : dances; popular religion; Mexican anthropology; Manuel Gamio; Nicolás León.

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