Ritual and Community Networks Among Laborer Groups in Mexico

Olga Lazcano and Gustavo Barrientos
Additional contact information
Olga Lazcano: Department at the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico
Gustavo Barrientos: Anthropology Department of the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1999, vol. 565, issue 1, 207-217

Abstract: As a symbolic act of cultural reproduction and re-elaboration of networks of community cohesion, so crucial to civic society at times of discontinuity of the social sense, ritual provides a temporary but necessary reorientation of the daily lives of industrial workers of Nahua origin in the Puebla-Tlaxcala region. This community phenomenon contrasts with the purpose of ritual connected to the workplace, where reaffirmation of identity as a worker is accentuated, subsuming ethnic identity and enhancing cohesion within the labor group and the factory. It is in this dual context that ritual be comes an intermediary in a sincretic process of both community and worker cohesion and ethnic and worker identity. What is important, then, is to distinguish between the two types of ritual, analyzed within the inter- and extra-workplace sphere of interaction, and the different symbols found in each. The purpose of this article is to present such an analysis using the voice of blue-collar workers.

Date: 1999
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271629956500114 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:565:y:1999:i:1:p:207-217

DOI: 10.1177/000271629956500114

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().