Los rostros múltiples de un pueblo: un estudio sobre la identidad

This article examines ethnic maya identity, working from the understandingof identity not in essentialist terms but rather as a process inwhich the multiple identities of individuals and groups are woventogether. This result from the diverse relationships sustained betweenthese groups and their environment and also with other groups, fromwhich they are not necessarily excluded and with which they may evenbecome part of, without leaving behind their original sense of ethnicbelonging. This discussion is based on the results of research carriedout over six years in the village of Chacsink’n, Yucatan, Mexico. Themajority of the inhabitants are maya speakers and campesinos, who alsoregister the impacts of the national and global context of which theyform a part and against which their identity struggles to be noticed andto survive.