CACAHUAMILPA’S CAVERNS: VISUAL REPRESENTATION AND CULTURE OF THE TERRITORY IN THE XIX CENTURY

Abstract

The article explores the value of the image in the processes of recording and interpreting natural and social phenomena. In this sense, the work proposes a general description of the conceptual appropriation of the caverns of Cacahuamilpa and Carlos Pacheco that took place in the 19th century, from a vision made up of three symbolic areas that interacted with each other, with different degrees of intensity: painting, engraving and photography. Each of these areas is studied, focusing on the particularities of its representation, mediated in turn by the social relations of utility and control. It is observed how in this singular process two perspectives are decanted: the social representation of these caverns and their scientific understanding.