Representaciones y conductas. Un repertorio de las violencias entre los nahuas de la Sierra Norte de Puebla

Among the Nahua, one does not find a strict equivalent to “violence”. Yet, on the one hand, the idea of an excessive, dangerous force permeates a large set of narratives, mythical (founding violence) and ethnohistorical (aggressions and resistance). On the other hand, violence is quite present in daily life, under multiple forms: thefts, “envy” and witchcraft, domestic violence. In spite of this extension, whose corollary is a “discourse of disgrace”, one cannot speak here of a culture of violence, since our interlocutors devote much energy to overcome it in order to build a personal and familial happiness, however frail they may feel it is.