Representatives, actors and legislators: the political world of the Mexico City Congress

Authors

  • Francisco de la Peña Martínez

Keywords:

Politics, ritual, rationality, representation, performance.

Abstract

The world of politics and the work of popular representatives in the Congress of Mexico City is structured according to two grand times. A technical and pragmatic time (the ordinary session), oriented towards the elaboration, discussion, processing and implementation of legal and political initiatives and reforms, along with a ceremonial time (the solemn session), oriented towards celebration and commemoration, to the ritual staging, show and theatricality. There is a dialogue between these times, which more than opposing each other, actually overlap, which explains the life and expressions of the congressional culture in different contexts.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Abélès, Marc
1988 El lugar de la política. Editorial Mitre. Barcelona.
1990 Anthropologie de l’État. Armand Colin. París.
1997 La mise en représentation du politique, en Anthropologie du politique, Marc Abélès y Henri-Pierre Jeudy (eds.). Armand Colin. París: 247-270.
2008 Política de la supervivencia. Eudeba. Buenos Aires.

Abélès, Marc y Maximo Badaró
2015 Los encantos del poder. Desafíos de la antropología política. Siglo xxi. Buenos Aires.

Appadurai, Arjun
2001 La modernidad desbordada. Dimensiones culturales de la globalización. Fondo de Cultura Económica. México.

Augé, Marc
1995 Hacia una antropología de los mundos contemporáneos. Gedisa. Barcelona.

Balandier, Georges
1980 Le pouvoir sur scènes. Balland. París.

Couldry, Nick
2005 Media rituals: Beyond functionalism, en Media Anthropology, Eric Rothenbuhler y Mihai Coman (eds.). Sage. Londres: 59-69.

Geertz, Clifford
2000 Negara. El Estado-teatro en el Bali del siglo xix. Paidós. Buenos Aires.

Lomnitz, Larissa, Rodrigo Salazar Helena e Ilya Adler
2004 Simbolismo y ritual en la política mexicana. Siglo XXI. México.

Turner, Victor
1974 Dramas, Fields and Metaphors. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, Nueva York.

Published

2019-09-13

How to Cite

de la Peña Martínez, F. (2019). Representatives, actors and legislators: the political world of the Mexico City Congress. Cuicuilco Revista De Ciencias Antropológicas, 26(75), 201–222. Retrieved from https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/cuicuilco/article/view/14722