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ESCALONA VICTORIA, José Luis. Ethnographic perspectives in Chiapas, Mexico, from an anthropology of power. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2012, vol.74, n.4, pp.533-560. ISSN 2594-0651.

A selection of texts is used to provide an overview of some of the perspectives that have predominated in the ethnography of the Maya people in Chiapas over the past hundred years. The author analyzes the changes in the study of social life,starting from the models founded on the ideas of culture and social structure (as relatively homogeneous, permanent and self-contained units) and finishing with an ethnographic position that focuses on translocal connections and flows, contradictions and multiple trends, symbolic production and the languages of power (a methodological perspective called "ethnography of power").

Palavras-chave : social sciences; anthropology; ethnography; Mayas; Chiapas.