Fin de un pueblo, fin del mundo: memorias y porvenires imaginados de Tixcacal Quintero, Yucatán

Abstract

This article presents the ways in which some people from Tixcacal Quintero (Yucatán, México), inhabitants or immigrants, remember the town’s henequenero past, and imagine its futures. Framed in a post-emigration context, which started in the middle of the last century, the text is a brief ethnography that recounts the memory-landscape of this contemporary Mayan town, conceived as a world by its inhabitants and migrants, evoking the place as a site that bases its existence in the acts of remembrance and narrate. The article goes through the memory of the waychivos, the end of the henequen industry, the abandonment of the town and the future that the inhabitants project on it, generating attitudes that could be considered as eschatological ones, facing the prospective disappearance of the town.