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      Configuración regional del Estado: Orden mercantil y comunidad interpretativa en la frontera México-Guatemala Translated title: Regional State configuration: The mercantile order and interpretive community on the Mexico-Guatemala border

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          Resumen: Ofrecemos una descripción etnográfica de la circulación de hortalizas en la frontera de México con Guatemala. Estas mercancías transitan de un país a otro por caminos de extravío mediante tráfico hormiga: ingresan por medio del contrabando de pequeñas cantidades de manera constante, utilizando pasos fronterizos tolerados. El objetivo es mostrar cómo las interacciones de los actores fronterizos involucrados construyen un orden local distinto al de los parámetros normativos del Estado. Un orden que se fundamenta en una serie de normas no escritas que guían las prácticas de cruce, creando así una “comunidad interpretativa”. Se esclarecerá por qué el personal operativo de diversos niveles del gobierno mexicano encargado de la supervisión mercantil no está al margen de dicha comunidad, sino forman parte importante de ella; y cómo se configura empíricamente el Estado dentro de la misma, partiendo de la idea de que el Estado no es un ente totalizador y coherente.

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          Abstract: We offer an ethnographic description of the circulation of vegetables on the border between Mexico and Guatemala. These goods move from one country to the other through ant-style piecemeal trafficking on misdirected paths: they enter constantly as contraband in small quantities, using tolerated border crossings. The objective is to show how the interactions between the border actors involved construct a local order that is different from that of the State’s normative parameters. An order is founded on a series of unwritten rules that govern the practices of crossing, thereby creating an “interpretive community.” This paper clarifies why the operating personnel from different levels of the Mexican government charged with overseeing trade are not outside of this community but rather compose an important part of it and how the State is empirically constructed within it, starting from the idea that the State is not an all-encompassing and coherent entity.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                estfro
                Estudios fronterizos
                Estud. front
                Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico )
                0187-6961
                2395-9134
                April 2017
                : 18
                : 35
                : 1-21
                Affiliations
                [1] San Cristóbal de las Casas orgnameUniversidad Autónoma de Chiapas Mexico hugosaulrojasgmail.com, hctrfo@ 123456gmail.com
                Article
                S0187-69612017000100001 S0187-6961(17)01803500001
                10.21670/ref.2017.35.a01
                32b22012-375d-4d94-ac3b-8d09f299de58

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 18 August 2016
                : 25 February 2016
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 35, Pages: 21
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                local order,Mexico-Guatemala border,empirical construction of the State,interpretive community,border commerce,frontera México-Guatemala.,construcción empírica del Estado,comunidad interpretativa,orden local,comercio fronterizo

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