Resumen

IMBERTON-DENEKE, Gracia. Suicide Vulnerability in Rural Localities in Chiapas: an Ethnographical Approach. LiminaR [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.2, pp.81-96. ISSN 2007-8900.

While suicide is a compelling phenomenon that has experienced substantial growth on a global and national scale, social studies on this topic are scarce. It is imperative to conduct more research on the subject, and to reflect and discuss viable analytical perspectives. In this article, I examine the social dimension of self-inflicted death in Río Grande and Cantioc in Chiapas, Mexico, through an ethnographical approach. Aware of the methodological difficulties involved in the construction of suicide data and the local causal explanations, I argue that an approach to both the historical context of a particular social space and the current living conditions of the population enables us to draw some correlations between social positions, tensions and conflicts, and suicide vulnerability.

Palabras llave : suicide; ethnographical approach; methodological difficulties; social positions; vulnerability.