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Letras históricas
On-line version ISSN 2448-8372Print version ISSN 2007-1140
Abstract
LOPEZ CONTRERAS, Felipe de Jesús. The territorial and symbolic appropriation of the Indian of San Juan de los Lagos: 1623-1633. Let. hist. [online]. 2021, n.24, pp.29-48. Epub Feb 21, 2022. ISSN 2448-8372. https://doi.org/10.31836/lh.v0i24.7259.
The objective of the present work is to examine, from the methodology of cultural history, the name change of the town that today is known as San Juan de los Lagos, formerly known as San Juan Bautista de Mazatitlán or Mezquititlán. Examining this name change allows us to observe the Spanish appropriation of the place and the image, displacing the indigenous from the territorial and the symbolic. The change in nomenclature allowed the Spanish to appropriate the territory, the image and, in turn, individualize it, incorporating it into what is familiar to them.
Keywords : Change of name; symbolic displacement; symbolic mobility of the Indian; appropriation; Camarena.