From made up communities to invisible communities: Toward a framework for the study of Baja California’s Yumans

From made up communities to invisible communities: Toward a framework for the study of Baja California’s Yumans

This paper focuses on the construction of social networks and ethnicity among the Yuman indigenous people of Baja California, Mexico. By questioning the traditional view of the Yumans as decimated and culturally assimilated groups, this paper suggests a new theoretical framework to approach the alle...

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Main Author: Garduño, Everardo
Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2002
Subjects:
Transnational community
hyperspace
Polybius
Social sciences
Demographics
Economic growth
The development and planning
Sociology
culture
Social structure
communities
Human settlements
Anthropology
Ethnic groups and races
Comunidad transnacional
hiperespacio
polibio
Ciencias sociales
Demografía
El crecimiento económico
El desarrollo y la planificación
Sociología
Cultura
Estructura social
Comunidades
Asentamientos humanos
Antropología
Los grupos étnicos y razas
Online Access:https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/277
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Summary:This paper focuses on the construction of social networks and ethnicity among the Yuman indigenous people of Baja California, Mexico. By questioning the traditional view of the Yumans as decimated and culturally assimilated groups, this paper suggests a new theoretical framework to approach the alleged dissipation of distinctive Yuman populations. Central concepts of this framework are the notions of transnational community, hyperspace and polybian. According to the author, these concepts applied to field-research may reveal how the Yumans remain engaged in the elaboration of new forms of social organization and ethnic self-references, through the construction of wide social networks that include (although it is not limited to) the linguistically-related groups living in the United States.

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