A territorialidade dos muxes

Abstract

With this study it was possible to know and understand the territoriality of the muxes from a wider field. Knowing about muxes today is no longer a myth, since this group of people is considered the third gender in Oaxaca, Mexico. In order to achieve this research, field work and recognition of the territory in the limits of Juchitán and Santo Domigo de Tehuantepec were carried out with the help of muxes who formed part of a support group for the recording of testimonies related to how people live every day in this region. All this work was given with respect and with an open mind to the own ways of thinking and expressing themselves of the muxes, where the attention was given as subjects and not as objects, that helped to obtain in a kind and precise way, all the information that was needed to achieve this research in an intercultural way and based on the ecology of knowledge. Acting, thinking and using participating and collective methodologies respecting their own cosmology, was fundamental for the promotion of autonomy, when the difference is put in a positive way and not as backwardness or inferiority, and thus: we managed to strengthen their identity and make their traditions, customs, folklore and culture notorious that by nature belongs to them and that they profess inatamente, and that also observes a harmonious coexistence and respect, in order to contribute at the same time the muxes and the zapotec ethnic group at the local and regional level.