No. 14 (2020): Con-temporánea
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Las dos últimas lunas de Chorro, Belice. Mujeres mayas descendientes de desplazados por la Guerra de Castas de Yucatán

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  • José Manuel A. Chávez Gómez

Published 2022-01-10

Keywords

  • Caste War, cruz’ob, Southern pacifists, jungle, Belize.

How to Cite

Las dos últimas lunas de Chorro, Belice. Mujeres mayas descendientes de desplazados por la Guerra de Castas de Yucatán. (2022). Con-temporánea, 14, 89-99. https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/contemporanea/article/view/17510

Abstract

Aside from creating a shock in the life at the Yucatan Peninsula, The Caste War also created divisions between the Mayans who formed part of the revolt. This paper will examine the impact of the insurrection on the pacifist Mayans, which signed a peace treaty with the government at the beginning of the 1850s. This group had to emigrate to the South (mostly to Belize) due to the aggressions of the group cruz’ob. They found themselves in a different environment from the one they had known in Yucatan, and they had to develop new survival skills for the jungle and to protect themselves against jaguars. The author develops an ethnographic narrative based on the accounts of two women who survived the exodus.

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