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MEZA BERNAL, Iris. Language and worldview. Elements of resistance and communality in three Maya Macehuales communities in Quintana Roo. Cultura representaciones soc [online]. 2012, vol.7, n.13, pp.96-153. ISSN 2007-8110.

This article presents, from a historical anthropology perspective along with political ecology, some manifestations of indigenous resistance within the Maya Macehuales of Quintana Roo when facing processes of domination and development projects. Taking into account that the current characteristics of the elements of the way of communal life of the Maya macehuales peoples are the most finished and concrete expression of the resistance in the so called " "Maya Zone" in Quintana Roo, a research in three of its communities was carried out in order to find out how this way of communal life has been expressed and is presented in the Maya macehuales territories, and to understand the development proposals and / or alternatives to the development of the indigenous peoples that are the interest of this text. From an ethnographic perspective, two central elements of the way of the daily, ritual and productive communal Mayan life are described and revealed as part of a specific model of nature and the construction of the ecosystems. Through the ethnographic description of the language and the worldview of Maya macehuales, this article shows that the indigenous peoples are holders of cognitive models, ways of understanding and relating to the world and forms of organization and social production related to their historical and territorial context. By preserving the cultural values they do a ritual use of the ecosystems which leads us to consider the sustainable development through a fourth axis, on top of the environmental, economic and social: the ethnic.

Palabras llave : Maya; indigenous resistance; communal culture; language; worldview; territoriality; development.

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