Resumen

ALVAREZ-ROMERO, Ana Lourdes. The Frontier between Anthropology and Literature in Juan Pérez Jolote. LiminaR [online]. 2019, vol.17, n.1, pp.145-157. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v17i1.651.

This article analyzes the paradigmatic work Juan Pérez Jolote (1948) by the anthropologist Ricardo Pozas, as a boundary space for a dialog between anthropology and literature in post-revolutionary Mexico. Pozas’s text can be viewed as a semiotic “frontier” according to the terminology developed by Yuri Lotman. I conclude that due to its position as a frontier, it is impossible to understand Juan Pérez Jolote through the dichotomy “anthropology or fiction.”

Palabras llave : Ricardo Pozas; Juan Pérez Jolote; indigenism; Mexican literature; Mexican anthropology.