Ritual Compadrazgo as an instrument of Interethnic and Social Adaptation among the Rarámuri in Northwestern Mexico and its Possible Correlations to Local Political Events

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  • Marek Halbich

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https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3611

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Rarámuri, northwestern Mexico, ritual compadrazgo, ejido, social adaptation

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This paper pursues, on the basis of some field-works among the Rarámuri Indians and the mestizos in northwestern Mexico, namely in the ejido Munerachi and the small Mexican towns Batopilas and Creel, three principal aims: first, it generally outlines the concept of the Mexican ejido; second, it focuses on the application of the theoretical concept ritual (fictive) compadrazgo of the North-American anthropologists Eric Wolf and Sidney Mintz in Lower and Upper Tarahumara in the Indian and the mestizo communities; and, third, it tries to find some possible correlations of the ritual compadrazgo to local political events.

Biografie autora

Marek Halbich

from 1985 to 1990 he studied at the Pedagogic Faculty in Ústí nad Labem; from 1990 to 1998 he continued studying ethnology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and from 1999 to 2007 he was a student of postgraduate studies in the Institute of Ethnology at the Faculty of Arts; in 2007 he concluded his dissertation thesis called Tarahumara/Rarámuri in northwestern Mexico: from caves to ejido. Since 2002 he has been employed as an assistant professor in the Department of General Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague. He gives lectures on ecological anthropology, anthropology/sociology of tourism, linguistic anthropology and Ibero-American studies focused above all on the native groups of Mexican northwest and Central America. He carried out his field works in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

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2010-07-01

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Halbich, M. (2010). Ritual Compadrazgo as an instrument of Interethnic and Social Adaptation among the Rarámuri in Northwestern Mexico and its Possible Correlations to Local Political Events. Lidé města, 12(2), 331-384. https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3611

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