Descripción:
This article examines ethnic maya identity, working from the understanding of identity not in essentialist terms but rather as a process in which the multiple identities of individuals and groups are woven together. This result from the diverse relationships sustained between these groups and their environment and also with other groups, from which they are not necessarily excluded and with which they may even become part of, without leaving behind their original sense of ethnic belonging. This discussion is based on the results of research carried out over six years in the village of Chacsink’n, Yucatan, Mexico. The majority of the inhabitants are maya speakers and campesinos, who also register the impacts of the national and global context of which they form a part and against which their identity struggles to be noticed and to survive.