%0 Journal Article
%T La dynamique des repr¨¦sentations : fronti¨¨res et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayas Dynamics of Representations: Boundaries and the Post-Classical Sociopolitical Landscape of the Maya Highlands: Between Crisis and Tradition in Indigenous Texts
%A Marie Annereau-Fulbert
%J Ateliers d'Anthropologie
%D 2012
%I LESC (Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, CNRS-Universit¨¦ Paris X)
%R 10.4000/ateliers.9193
%X Les sources ethnohistoriques des Hautes Terres du Guatemala d¨¦crivent le Postclassique, ¨¤ l¡¯aube de la Conqu¨ºte espagnole, comme une p¨¦riode tourment¨¦e, nourrie de conflits incessants entre des groupes de nature sociopolitique distincte mais de langues apparent¨¦es. Ils partagent pourtant une m¨ºme histoire ¨¦voqu¨¦e sous la forme de r¨¦cits de migration et de mythes. Sans interroger la v¨¦racit¨¦ des faits historiques qu¡¯ils pourraient illustrer, nous verrons, grace ¨¤ certains passages du Popol Vuh compil¨¦ au xvie si¨¨cle et d¡¯autres textes de l¡¯¨¦poque, qu¡¯ils servent ¨¤ domestiquer plusieurs moments de rupture radicale avec un ancien ordre du monde, en red¨¦finissant les fronti¨¨res de l¡¯alt¨¦rit¨¦ et des relations de pouvoir vis-¨¤-vis d¡¯une autorit¨¦ centrale dont l¡¯identit¨¦ se d¨¦place ¨¦galement au gr¨¦ des conjonctures. Interroger la relation entre mythe et fronti¨¨re revient ¨¤ examiner ici le rapport entre mythe et politique. Ethnohistorical sources from the Guatemala Highlands describe the Post-Classical period, at the dawn of the Spanish conquest, as a period of torment, fuelled by ceaseless conflict between groups that are sociopolitically distinct but have similar languages. And yet they share a common history that is evoked in the form of migration stories and myths. Without questioning the truth of the historical facts that these may illustrate, we will see, thanks to certain passages from the Popol Vuh compiled in the 16th century and other texts from that period, that they served to subjugate several radical moments of rupture with the old world order, by redefining the boundaries of alterity and power relations in relation to a central authority whose identity was also displaced according to circumstances. In this case, questioning the relationship between myth and boundary comes down to examining the relation between myth and politics.
%K power
%K myth
%K tradition
%K crisis
%K Guatemala
%K migration
%K tradition
%K pouvoir
%K mythe
%K migration
%K crise
%K Guatemala
%U http://ateliers.revues.org/9193