NEW FORMS OF ADORATION AND WORSHIP: THE SOCIAL BUILDING OF THE SANTERY IN CATEMACO, VERACRUZ, MÉXICO

Abstract

The present article is a product of a social-antropological research about the religion knows as santery performed in Catemaco, Veracruz, México in 2008. The principal objective was to explore and to analize the different ways in wich people build their realities the lifestyles, the spaces (domains) and interaction the main symbols and the local traditions, searching for the origin relationship and mixing by especific practices such as witch craft the spiritism, the folk-heale, craft, etc. At last, to discover the use and the ways that the men and women use them inside the region, from the adquisition of transnational images, discourses and ideas that stablish on an imaginary way, building a mexican santery.