Abstract

LARA-GONZALEZ, José Joel. Embody the World. Women of the Teenek Culture from Huasteca Potosina. CS [online]. 2022, n.38, pp.145-173.  Epub Nov 09, 2022. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i38.5117.

The study of textiles from the social sciences or art can have multiple approaches depending on the research objectives: materials and measures, techniques of obtaining materials and processing, immersed economic processes, production conditions, social and ritual processes, and commerce. This article explores the importance of the relationship between women and the embroidery of a female textile called dhayemlaab, for the Teenek cultural constitution in Huasteca Potosina. Based on ethnographic data, the paper presents an anthropological interpretation of how this textile, its embroidery, and its permanence are a garment of cultural resistance since it narrates in its designs the historical and cultural existence of the Teenek from Huasteca. These elements allow to understand how women embody the world by embroidering and carrying the dhayemlaab that covers their torso.

Keywords : Textiles; Anthropology of Narratives; Embody; Woman-dhayemlaab; Huastec Teenek.

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