| Revista: | Investigaciones geográficas - Instituto de Geografía. UNAM |
| Base de datos: | PERIÓDICA |
| Número de sistema: | 000446444 |
| ISSN: | 0188-4611 |
| Autores: | Montiel Rogel, Alma Patricia1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México. México |
| Año: | 2021 |
| Número: | 105 |
| País: | México |
| Idioma: | Español |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Resumen en español | Este trabajo tiene como propósito analizar el paisaje cultural de San Miguel Tlaixpan como resultado de la representación simbólica de los manantiales y ríos contenida en los relatos sobre los ahuaques, espíritus que residen en cuerpos de agua. Para ello, se partió de las reflexiones de la geografía cultural y de la recopilación de material mediante trabajo de campo (entrevistas y observación no participativa) y de gabinete (fuentes primarias como códices, mapas antiguos y crónicas). Asimismo, se integraron mapas para entender, por un lado, las distintas representaciones espaciales antiguas de la comunidad y, por otro lado, señalar los sitios relevantes dentro del paisaje cultural por la referencia a estas entidades |
| Resumen en inglés | In the central part of the country, specifically the Basin of Mexico, a Nahuatl heritage still exists that refers to different cultural expressions about natural goods. An example is found in the community of San Miguel Tlaixpan, in the municipality of Texcoco, located at the eastern zone of the basin, where there are accounts of ahuaques - spirits that, according to the Nahuatl cosmovision, protect water bodies such as rivers and springs, and assist in the distribution of water used in irrigation. These narratives set the grounds for building cultural landscapes. For this reason, the aim of the following text is to expose the cultural landscape of the community as a result of the symbolic representation of springs and rivers contained in accounts about ahuaques. The work pertains to cultural geography from the recovery of the landscape concept. On the other hand, a qualitative methodology was used for data collection based on field work, including open interviews for a snowball sample type administered to flower and fruit growers, as well as non-participatory observations in festivities relating to the beginning and end of the rainy cycle. Cabinet work was also used by gathering primary documentary sources such as the Patlachiuhqui and Moyotepec map, the VaticanRíos and Xólotl codices, and the chronicles by Clavijero, Torquaza, and Sahagún to contrast some characteristics of ahuaques from interviews versus ancient historical sources and understand the broader representations of territoriality linked to the cosmovision on ahuaques. Secondary sources were also used, including research works by historians and anthropologists who study these materials and the Nahuatl worldview about water. The analysis was divided into 3 parts: the first addresses a geographic overview of San Miguel Tlaixpan, including its location and the location of its water bodies; the second analyzes the main characteristics of ahuaques and their relationship with the water bodies of |
| Disciplinas: | Geografía |
| Palabras clave: | Geografía humana, México, San Miguel Tlaixpan, Ahuaques, Paisaje cultural, Espacio sagrado |
| Keyword: | Human geography, Mexico, Ahuaques, Cultural landscape, Sacred space, San Miguel Tlaixpan |
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