Resumen

FLORES MARTOS, Juan Antonio. ICONOGRAPHYS AND GLOBALIZED INDIAN MOTIVES IN RITUALS AND HISTORIES OF THE URBANIZED MÉXICO. Textos Antropológicos [online]. 2003, vol.14, n.1, pp. 145-156. ISSN 1025-3181.

In the fluid and plural field ofthe Latin-American identities, some contemporary Mexican ritual practices and mystical histories are explored -specially of Veracruz and México, D.F.-, in which the indigenous motives and symbols gain a central character, andwhich combined with elements of cultural repertories of África, Asia, and Europe, genérate identities ofnativist and indianist character for an important part ofthe middle classes and popular groups ofthose cities. This rituals and histories, ofdifferent sign and scale, can be focused as a cultural orientation phenomenon, and of singular composition, that also nur tures ofobjects and figures, of an authentic globalized spiritual hypermarket. "The Indian " appears as one more category and in a good measure notprivileged, among the identitary composition and elaboration ofthose urban cultures, forming part of a singular combination of motives of different aesthetical, cultural, and religious traditions extractedfrom varied scales (local, regional, national, and international), and cross-cut by processes of globalization, and more accurately of glocalization.