Carlos Arturo Hernández Dávila D. in Social Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (enah). He has been coordinator of the undergraduate program in Ethnology and deputy director of undergraduate programs at the same institution. His work focuses on Otomi Christianity in the State of Mexico, as well as on the visual memory of the working peoples of the Valley of Mexico. He is currently a professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Reflection at the Universidad Iberoamericana-Mexico City, as well as in the PhD in Human Development at the Universidad Motolinía del Pedregal.

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“If God Doesn’t Pronounce It, We Don’t Die”: Multimedia Chronicle of the Otomí Ceremonial Circle Against Covid-19

  • Carlos Arturo Hernández Dávila

The Otomí peoples’ perception of covid-19 was marked by their historic experience facing exogenous illnesses from the colonial period to the present day. In the face of the arrival of the pandemic and a lack of precise information, ritual specialists both in the Sierra de las Cruces and Sierra de Montealto (in Mexico state) and in the Sierra Norte de Puebla were driven to identify it, determine its origin, and, using their ritual proficiency, give it a body and a face in order to battle it with greater efficacy.