Memories of the daily life of Italian immigrants in Puebla from the semiotic analysis of photographic albums
Abstract
"During much of the 20th century, photography in the area of social science and humanities research was used only to illustrate and demonstrate field work, that is, photography was used as visual support. Over the years it began to be considered as the main source of research to analyze and interpret social phenomena from different disciplinary perspectives. Based on a visual corpus selected from family albums of an Italian-Mexican family from the town of Chipilo de Francisco Javier Mina in the state of Puebla in Mexico, the present work shows the analysis and interpretation of these photographs through the use of semiotics, based on Silva and Visa’s proposal, to identify the relevance of identity and the importance of the elements of daily life among the inhabitants of said population. From the photographs, the main activities of daily life and the way in which, through the recovery of memory, contributes to the strengthening of identity as well as the identification and preservation of the cultural heritage of Italian-Mexicans in Mexico are shown".