Finally, it analyzes how the idea of mixtures is viewed and incorporated into the collective identity narratives in the area. Next, it explores the meanings of some locally used categories that show the way in which the physical aspect, and the way to wear one's hair in particular, is socially perceived and interpreted in El Faro. In the first place, it examines the concepts of race and racialization in order to understand how physical attributes have been used to highlight differences and order them into a hierarchy. This article presents an ethnographic discussion around the processes of racialization, miscegenation and the construction of identity/otherness in Punta Maldonado (El Faro), on the Costa Chica of the state of Guerrero. Keywords: otherness, identity, crossbreeding, racialization, race scrambled eggs, cracks and puchuncos racialization, identity and miscegenation in a town of the costa chica of guerrero Next, it explores the meanings of some locally used categories that show the way in which the physical aspect, and the way to wear one’s hair in particular, is socially perceived and interpreted in El Faro.
She has also conducted ethnographic research with coastal fishermen, investigating, among other things, empirical knowledge, work techniques and technologies, labor relations and symbolic imaginaries. Her research topics revolve around the narratives of identity and otherness and the processes of racialization and ethnicity among Afro-descendant subjects, particularly from Mexico and Colombia. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Chiapas y la Frontera Sur ( cimsur), at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, as well as member of the Grupo de Estudios Afrocolombianos.
* Giovanny Castillo Figueroa He is an anthropologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, master and doctor in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa.