| Sumario: | The articulating idea of this essay is to emphasize the relation between the project of “rationalist” groups and the indigenous rural world in the Garridist Tabasco, which had particular social and religious characteristics. Based on the analysis of a number of cases, such as that of San Carlos-Epigmenio Antonio (built upon unpublished sources), we emphasize the ideological dimension and its concretion on the radical political and social modernization plans, experimented in an apparently peripheral entity of the Federation, which was however open to the modernizing winds of the Caribbean and the Gulf. The experience of the Garridist Tabasco is singularly placed within the construction process of the Mexican postrevolutionary nation. During the second half of the 1920’s and the first half of the 1930’s, in Tabasco, parallel to the development of “anti-alcoholic”, “pro-woman” and “religious defanatization” campaigns, a number of social experiments were held, which were characterized by their radicalism, organization and will to exert control over the territory, and whose predominant character was socio-cultural, rather than political. Within this framework, we compared the ethnographic and historiographic work with documents from civil (State Archive, agn, sep, Calles-Torreblanca Trusteeship) and religious (the Pascual Díaz collection from the Historical Archive of the Archbishopric of Mexico, Vatican Secret Archive) archives, in order to define certain characteristics of Garridism in its relation with the complex indigenous world of Tabasco, with its view of the world and its religiousness. Thus, we found forms of acceptance and change, on the one side and, on the other, forms of resistance, auto-defense and readaptation of a singular syncretic Catholicism.
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