Life story of a volunteer from the Zóquite community museum

Abstract

 In recent decades, a vigorous relationship has been forged between the museology and oral history that make up a interdisciplinary device, through which the conservative nature of museums as repositories of historical and artistic heritage that support their functioning in collecting and art transcends the mere exhibition of objects, because through the recovery of direct testimonies and life stories, the transcultural dimension of community museums can be circumscribed.

These spaces establish crossroads, connections of people, objects and orality that form an integral part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (PCI), through which the promoters, volunteers and active members of the communities, although they can appropriate the knowledge, customs and traditions in relation to their environment, enable the narrative retransmission of such knowledge.

This article presents the life story of Pablo Román, one of the main cultural promoters of the Zóquite Museum, located in the region of the Valley of Guadalupe, Zacatecas, and whose narrative accounts for the cultural trajectory and the social challenges that has faced community museology in the context of a social crisis that permeates Zacatecas. At the same time, it can illustrate the situation that these rural projects located in the north central region of Mexico are going through.