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Fragment of Story: An Otomi Woman from Hidalgo in Mexico (1886-1974)

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doi:10.2478/eas-2022-0011

Authors

Rosa Elena Durán González · Luis Francisco Rivero Zambrano · Berenice Alfaro–Ponce

Reported year

2022

Reported language

en

Source type

article

First detected

2026-11-09T19:04:47.811333+00:00

Last metadata observation

2026-11-09T19:04:47.811333+00:00

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Institutions reported by the source

Instituto Politécnico Nacional · Tecnológico de Monterrey · Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo

Reported affiliation countries

MX

Documentary abstract — original language

Abstract We present the life dynamics of an indigenous woman. Those dynamics, which took place mainly in the post-revolutionary era, have been taken from life stories. They have been built among fragments of memories and empty documentaries. The analysis approaches the sociocultural conditions of a region where ancestral knowledge was vital for family subsistence. This approach allows us to consider the actors, Ángela Tolentino and other Otomí-Tepehua [geographic and cultural region from Hidalgo State, Mexico] women natives of the state of Hidalgo, as products of history. We highlight decisive actions to make her life a unique story as an actor in her own social space. Those actions are the formation of a family without the guardianship and protection of a father, a brother, or a husband; becoming the sole economic provider of her children; migrating to experience the gradual abandonment of previous knowledge (including her mother tongue, which gradually became extinct among her descendants); and to live in a political context that fought for the assimilation of indigenous culture because it was considered as a restraint for the development of the country. We recover memories of her life from her descendants, such as experiences and discussions made while walking and traveling from one ranchería [small rural settlement] to another, far from rural and urban centers. In this sense, we consider her as the producer of her own story. This is how to interweave the image of an Otomí -speaking indigenous woman at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

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OPENALEX

W4391666508

DOI

10.2478/eas-2022-0011

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MX

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2022-0011
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4391666508

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