Abstract

LIRA LARIOS, Regina. The Unstable Image of Manuel Lozada. Between Political History and the Politics of History. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2019, n.57, pp.133-162.  Epub Apr 30, 2020. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2019.57.67170.

Manuel Lozada, military leader of the “forces of the United Peoples of Nayarit”, who between 1858 and 1873 established a de facto autonomy in a territory that later became the state of Nayarit, has been represented in a variety of ways throughout the generations of historians, intellectuals and anthropologists interested in his study. That is, as the Tiger of Álica, an Indian agrarian precursor, a mestizo and catholic social bandit, a leader of popular conservatism, or as a transgressor Christ, as the indigenous perspective recalls. Based in the most representative works and registers that date back to more than one hundred years -which also is a review of the models and theoretical approaches in the study of rural actors in 19th century Mexico- two aspects will be highlighted. First, the diverse and changing articulations between history and politics in the production of historical knowledge. Second, these representations show modes of relation with the sector that he is associated with, that are manifest in terms of exclusion, assimilation or paradoxical. We propose that these cooccur in the present, making of Lozada’s figure an unstable image.

Keywords : historiography; memory; indigenous people; political history; representation..

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