La nación janambre.: Etnohistoria y divulgación teatral de su manera de vivir

Abstract

Well, the work that concerns us now fully complies with what is offered in the title, that is, it deals with the janambres and their way of living in the period in which they existed, and also presents a play. At the beginning, he tells us how his concern for the conservation of the archaeological and biocultural heritage that exists in Gómez Farías, Tamaulipas, where he is from, led him to realize that the young population that lives there today, who occasionally observes unharmed how that heritage is destroyed, they know little or nothing about the ancient inhabitants of that region. As Manuel Gándara declared, paraphrasing Freeman Tilden, "nobody knows what they don't understand and nobody takes care of what they don't know", so Giovanni Chávez set about the task of researching the ancient inhabitants, their way of life and creating an environment of effective communication to teach the new generations who the janambres were and how they lived, in the same territory that they now inhabit.

Keywords: Ways of life, archaeological heritage, effective means of communication, Huasteca region