Bogotá, ciudad mítica: mitos urbanos e identidad cultural en la Candelaria

Abstract

The present investigation is based on the question about the cultural identity of Bogota citizens and how, based on urban myths in the central town of La Candelaria, this identity can be co-constructed. Then, the postulates of authors who approach myth traditionally are taken as the basis, such as Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss and authors who address contemporary myths such as Roland Barthes and Joseph Campbell; also the city / Bogotá perspectives of authors such as Silva, Jaramillo and Pérgolis; in addition to the perspectives of cultural identity of authors such as Anthony Smith. Thus, the research has to be of a hermeneutic-interpretive paradigm, with a qualitative approach and a multisituated ethnography design. Finally, it is found that Bogota citizens are creators of their own myths, with a particular structure and paradigmatic contents that build the cultural identity of citizens.