Resumen

CHAVAROCHETTE, Carine. Regional Identifications between the Border Areas of Comitan, Mexico, and Huehuetenango, Guatemala. 1824-2001. LiminaR [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.2, pp.181-194. ISSN 2007-8900.

The big historical and political stages of the XIXth and XXth century that we can delimit with such events as the agreements of limits between Mexico and Guatemala, the Mexican Revolution, the Guatemalan refugees, the movement zapatista and the increase of the migratory Central American flows, modified the identities of populations. These events left deep fingerprints and transformed the region of Chiapanecan south-east and Guatemalan northwest. In this article, it is a question of defining how these populations live and think the national decisions; how the national State distinguishes them and how they are distinguished in turn and finally, how the possession of the land and the presence of an international border favor a singular identification. Thus, the concept of identity "boundary", can be self-identities to analyze local, national and transnational.

Palabras llave : borders; cultural identity; cultural relations; religious practices; pilgrimages; citizenship.