This article combines ethnographic and netnographic data to explore the relationships between body techniques and a sense of belonging through the contemporary Mexican martial art of Xilam. This art, founded by a female Mexican martial arts veteran, is slowly developing as a hand-to-hand sport, and has attracted critics for its supposed use of East Asian fighting techniques. Netnographic data reveal online debates on the origins and ‘true belonging’ of specific techniques while ethnographic fieldwork in a Xilam school demonstrates how the art is made ‘Mexican’ through specific accompanying practices and philosophy surrounding the movements. The movements of sitting, punching and standing are selected as key examples as understood through Mauss’s classic thesis. I conclude that Xilam follows a philosophical pedagogy that associates these techniques with a sense of Mexicanness – Mexicanidad.

本文结合民族志和网络志数据，通过当代墨西哥西拉姆武术探索身体技巧与归属感之间的关系。这种由墨西哥女武术老手创立的艺术正在慢慢发展成为一项徒手运动，并因其所谓的东亚格斗技巧而受到批评。网络志数据揭示了关于特定技术的起源和“真正归属”的在线辩论，而希拉姆学校的民族志实地考察展示了如何通过围绕运动的特定伴随实践和哲学使艺术成为“墨西哥式”。坐、打、站的动作被选为通过 Mauss 的经典论文理解的关键例子。我的结论是Xilam遵循一种哲学教学法，将这些技术与墨西哥人的感觉联系起来——墨西哥人。