%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Argyriadis, Kali
%T Narco-satanisation et corps en morceaux au Mexique. La Santa Muerte/Yemayá au coeur de la guerre des images = Narco-satanization and bodies in pieces in Mexico. Santa Muerte/Yemaya at the heart of the war images
%D 2018
%L fdi:010074910
%G FRE
%J Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines
%@ 0008-0055
%K Mexico ; Veracruz ; Yemaya ; Santa Muerte ; exorcism ; charismatic revival ; ritual crimes
%K MEXIQUE
%M ISI:000456041000010
%N 231
%P 817-851
%R 10.4000/etudesafricaines.22598
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010074910
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2019/02/010074910.pdf
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X While Mexican society is undergoing the resurgence of violence attributed to the drug-trafficking narcos, the devotion to Santa Muerte, suspected of fomenting ritual crimes and accused of "narcosatanism" is also being virulently attacked in media campaigns. At the same time, the Catholic Church, brandishing the specter of a return to pre-Hispanic human sacrifices, has authorized collective public exorcisms while many intellectuals are making the Santa Muerte into a working class symbol of resistance against corruption, crisis, abuse of state power and impunity. Based on an ethnographic survey conducted in the port of Veracruz, where the Santa Muerte has a double incarnate inspired by the oricha Yemaya, this article attempts to analyze the dialectic of violence and the symbolic counter-violence which are played out through this devotion in a banal show of one-upmanship by exhibiting bodies (mutilated bodies, possessed bodies, tattooed bodies, transvestites, and skeletons that come alive in the flesh) in public. This article also investigates the risk, for the researcher, of being caught up in, and thus part of, the ideological debates that saturate this field and contribute today to the criminalization of the most disadvantaged in society.
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