The present work discusses the study of death in the legends of the lacustrine Zone of Michoacán from the social imaginary theory of Cornelius Castoriadis. Those legends express the forms that the communities of Uranden de Morelos and Pacanda Island has built and given their own meaning to death in a procedural and contextual way, built by a common social imaginary, joining the identity character of individuals as well with their own death. These oral narrations of the legends were obtained, transcribed and processed to be studied through a qualitative analysis, particularly the interpretational analysis. At the end of the reflection the oral tradition is considered as a sphere developed in the social imaginary itself, both individually and collectively, while assuming the internalization of meanings around a way of perceiving death.
Valdez, J. C., Briz, Z., & García, R. (2018). Forms of death social imaginary in legends of the Michoacan area. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (37), 1–19. Retrieved from https://anuariocdh.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/49071
