Luz María Ortega Villa

Mitos en el valle de Mexicali: una cartografía de lo intangible

Como parte de una investigacion mas amplia sobre el paisaje cultural evolutivo del valle de Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, a partir de una encuesta se identifi caron los principales mitos que estan vigentes en esa zona rural, los temas que abordan y la localizacion de los hechos que narran. Mediante el uso de sistemas de informacion geografi ca (SIG), la informacion se proceso para elaborar una cartografia tematica de tales mitos, que hace posible visualizar las zonas de mayor densidad (donde hay mas concentracion de mitos). Los principales hallazgos refi eren la ausencia de mitos relacionados con el grupo indigena que habitaba originalmente el valle, la preeminencia de mitos acerca de “aparecidos” (fantasmas), asi como el predominio de mitos sociologicos con funcion pedagogica, que orientan las practicas espaciales de los habitantes del valle. Palabras clave: Mitos, cartografia, paisajes culturales, frontera norte de Mexico.

“Non-publics” of Legitimized Cultural Goods. Who are They?

AbstractThis work does not pretend to go in-depth into questioning the notion of “non-publics”, but rather aims to show that those whose preferences are far from high-brow culture are in fact publics of an offer near and dear to them, since it is part of their referential world. Thus, based on a two-phase study on consumption of cultural goods among low and medium-income households in a Mexican city, this article identifies the people considered as non-publics, come upon the consideration that variable degrees of exclusion are imposed on them by the social structured space, and sheds some light on a dimension rarely considered in the study of arts consumption : the valuation strategies applied to legitimized cultural goods by those who do not attend high-brow events, which leads to state that so-called non-publics are in fact social agents : individuals capable of exercising a thought of and reflexive behavior on the world.Abstract This work does not pretend to go in-depth into questioning the notion of “non-publics”, but rather aims to show that those whose preferences are far from high-brow culture are in fact publics of an offer near and dear to them, since it is part of their referential world. Thus, based on a two-phase study on consumption of cultural goods among low and medium-income households in a Mexican city, this article identifies the people considered as non-publics, come upon the consideration that variable degrees of exclusion are imposed on them by the social structured space, and sheds some light on a dimension rarely considered in the study of arts consumption : the valuation strategies applied to legitimized cultural goods by those who do not attend high-brow events, which leads to state that so-called non-publics are in fact social agents : individuals capable of exercising a thought of and reflexive behavior on the world.