%0 Journal Article %T Cronotopos de una naci¨®n dist¨®pica: el nacimiento de la "dependencia" en M¨¦xico durante el Porfiriato tard¨ªo %A Lomnitz %A Claudio %J Cuicuilco %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this paper develops a novel approach to anthropology and history of international borders. it proposes a typology and a phenomenological characterization of two kinds of border crossings that emerged alongside the new relationship of economic and political dependency that developed between m¨¦xico and the united states in the last quarter of the 19th century. the new border crossings involved the development of new 'chronotopes', in other words new and competing spatial-temporal matrices, used to frame the relationship between m¨¦xico and the united states. this paper analyzes the quality, nature and stakes of these alternative forms of historicity by way of a close case study of two pivotal journalistic texts: james creelman's (1908) interview of general porfirio d¨ªaz, and john kenneth turner's (1910) reportage and expos¨¦ of mexican slavery. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0185-16592010000100011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en