Resumo

TOSCANA APARICIO, Alejandra  e  VALDEZ PEREZ, Verónica. Social representations of the disaster of 1940 in Santa Cruz Pueblo Nuevo, State of Mexico. Invest. Geog [online]. 2014, n.83, pp.88-101. ISSN 2448-7279.  https://doi.org/10.14350/rig.36918.

In this research we investigate on some of the contemporary social representations that the inhabitants of the town Santa Cruz Pueblo Nuevo in the municipality Tenango del Valle, State of Mexico have been built around the disaster in 1940 in his town, which is still present in the oral tradition of the population. The methodological perspective of social representation allowed us to understand the knowledge of the inhabitants of the place. We identified natural and religious awards in the understanding of the disaster as well as a prospective look at their physical and social conditions to events similar to the one that occurred.

Palavras-chave : Social representation; Santa Cruz Pueblo Nuevo.