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This paper is a reflection on the phenomenon of voluntary isolation in Amazonia, about anthropology’s implication in its formation as a concept, and what anthropologists might profitably say about it as a concrete phenomenon in the world. While knowledge based on ethnographic fieldwork might by minimal or even totally absent for people in voluntary isolation, anthropological research has produced a very impressive understanding of indigenous Amazonian social forms in general, knowledge that can be brought to bear on the question.

Mesoamerican forms of shamanism have rarely been discussed in international academic debates. Through ethnographic information collected in the Sierra de Texcoco, in Mexico, what might be called a Nahua shamanic tradition is analyzed in light of the interlacing of relationship modes conceptually associated with hunting and agriculture. Nahua shamanism relates to a sacrificial cosmology that places predation as the first moment of a cosmic cycle of agonistic exchange, whose moment of retribution is linked to rain and agricultural fertility. The specificity of Nahua shamanism lies precisely in this articulation of logics of a hunting and agricultural nature, involved in the definition all at once of the entities at work, of the specialist himself and of the dynamics that govern the exercise of cosmic politics.

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Resumen: La historia de México registra entre sus varios protagonistas a personajes célebres por los hechos gloriosos o vergonzosos en que participaron. Mi intención en este artículo es mostrar a través del trabajo de Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, lo que parece incuestionable: la función del traductor en la construcción de la historia, la identidad y la cultura de un pueblo. En el caso que tratamos aquí se trata de la trascendencia que la obra de Sahagún ha tenido para un mejor conocimiento de la cultura nahua. Palabras clave: México, Sahagún, historia, identidad, cultura, nahua, traductor. THE SILENCE OF THE TRANSLATOR Abstract: The history of Mexico has among its various protagonists celebrities on account of either the glorious or the shameful events in which they got involved. My intention in this article is to show by means of the work of Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, a fact that seems certain: the role of the translator in the construction of the history, the identity, and the culture of a people. In the case discussed here we shall be dealing with the importance that Sahagun's work has had for a better understanding of the Nahua culture. Keywords: Mexico, Sahagún, history, identity, culture, Nahua, translator. LE SILENCE DU TRADUCTEUR Résumé : L'histoire du Mexique compte parmi ses célébrités différents protagonistes, en raison de leur participation soit dans des événements glorieux ou bien honteux. Mon intention dans cet article est de montrer par le biais de l'œuvre de Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, ce qui paraît certaine: le rôle du traducteur dans la construction de l'histoire, l'identité et la culture d'un peuple. Dans le cas évoqué ici, nous serons centrés sur l'importance du travail de Sahagun pour une meilleure compréhension de la culture nahua. Mots-clés : Mexique, Sahagún, histoire, identité, culture, Nahuas, traducteur.

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In the Nahua villages of the region of the High Mountains (in the centre of the state of Veracruz), a form of customary Catholicism and a scheme of social organisation which integrated the civic and the religious in a single symbolic universe predominated until the 1980s. If one could then already observe the presence of certain evangelical churches in some districts, the phenomenon of religious differentiation became increasingly visible in the 1990s in a context of crisis in relation to land, increasing social asymmetry and an intensification of transnational migrant fluxes. Based on a case study, this article illustrates the expansion of evangelical organisations, in particular Pentecostal ones, within the context of a redefinition of interethnic dynamics. The aim is to analyse the capacity of these organisations to provide new paths to autonomy and dissidence in the face of traditional cultural and political structures, and to show how they took part in the production of new forms of socialisation that promoted access to exogenous networks and a redefinition of one's relation to the ethnic space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]