Sabiduría, identidad y resistencia: el simbolismo del jaguar entre las tierras altas y baja de la cultura maya

Abstract

From a theory about the identity and the social Systems of Maya classifications, interests us to propose a perspective that allows making relations from the interethnic symbolism of the jaguar to the nature and culture that surrounds it. These visions allow us to understand certain structural logic in the unit and the ethnic difference that is given among the high lands and lower lands of the Maya. By the search of the analysis of the historie evidence, certain interethnic literature and oral traditions, besides another contextual evidence, it can be possible to see that the political power in own hands valúes an interpretation in which the jaguar is creator and wise. But, when the political power has been clearly in the hands of the other (by a interethnic and selfinterpretation), the jaguar is seen like a foolish and mere destructive animal. A practical plan of symbolic relations results thus in interethnic ideas and valúes that besides certain submission enable an act of interethnic resistance that can be so unpredictable just as real Ufe is. That is to say, that we are befare a complementary structure of othernesses and identities in movement, in historie changes.