Towards an interpretative model of Mexcaltitan in the insular universe. First approximation

Abstract

The generation of knowledge on the specific topic of the island of Mexcaltitan de Uribe, Nayarit (Mexico) and its strange and no less mysterious urban trace, can be approached from at least two major fields of vision: 1) from the objective / subjective, individual / collective residents (egocentric communities); 2) from the objective / subjective, individual / collective view of nonresident aliens (exocentric communities). As researchers, in this article we adopted the second point of view, with the aim of constructing (as an input) a first approximation to the study of the urban trace of that singular place. For this, we resorted to two theoretical models and their application to the analysis of the space referred to: symbolic hermeneutics and the anthropological structures of the imaginary. The main contribution of the text lies precisely in the approach of the problem from the previous theoretical and methodological background, unusual in the academic field of architects and urban planners.