AN ETHNOLOGIST ON THE BUS. A ROUTE FROM XELA TO SAN MARCOS, GUATEMALA

Abstract

Anyone who uses public transport, in any town on the planet, not only enters a cosmopolitan, diverse world. Where the various relationships occur: inter-ethnic, economic, power, analysis of the political reality of the country, etc. In short, the entire life of the people contained and shared in a space that, in this case, is the bus journey. This is a delight, a great source of information, for conducting ethnographic research. The smells, the flavors, the people, the landscape, the spontaneous dialogues; all this, enriched, from the daily life of the people who travel to various points, where the van, the bus, which runs through the territory; leaving a trail of smoke and many stories of lives interspersed with the idiosyncrasy of cultural diversity.