Perspectivas socioculturales decimonónicas sobre el indígena maya. Una historia cultural a través de El Registro Yucateco

Abstract

This article aims to interpret the sociocultural perspectives on the Mayan indigenous people by an intellectual sector of Yucatan in the mid-nineteenth century, through chronicles, literature and a report published in the literary newspaper El Registro Yucateco. Accordingly, reflections, stereotypes, cultural practices and daily life are analyzed and interpreted from the perspective of a dominant sector on a dominated social sector, in order to understand mentalities, imaginaries and particular sociocultural constructions of a specific period in the history of Yucatan.