Rethinking Mesoamerica : estirándole head and tail of the lizard

Abstract

Perhaps it would be possible to make wider the so called waist of America. The purpose of this article is not to challenge the several conceptions about Mesoamerica that has been sustained by ethnologists and anthropologists, but to remark that the term has had several senses. Some authors have been understood the Mesoamerican region in different ways. Since the pre-colonial era. The Mesoamerican region has been a changing reality. Sustained in the idea that space has historicity and it is expression of social relationships, it is possible to think that now Mesoamerica, in the literal sense of the word (the middle part of America), is something that could embrace a much wider territory that it was before conquest and colonization.