Keywords
ethnoknowledge
ethnological heritage
pre-hispanic vestiges
Teuchitlán
Keywords plus
Folk-lore
Ethnology
cultural heritage – Teuchitlan (Mexico)
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Abstract
The Pre-Hispanic vestiges are social objects of the present because in this temporary dimension the past is remembered,elaborated and reconstructed according to the terms of the society that includes those objects in its materialand symbolic universe. In rural societies, ideas about the past and historic remains are usually native, transmittedorally and evoke the social memory of the group that shapes it, sharing traditional knowledge and local meaningsabout those objects. The following paper presents the progress of an investigation that aims to collect these meaningsamong the inhabitants of Teuchitlán, a population in Western Mexico. Until now, the information collected constitutesa record of stories and myths constructed by Teuchitlán residents, in a place where daily contact with pre-hispanicobjects and ruins have forged a body of indigenous knowledge that guides people´s interaction with these objects.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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