El paisaje de los muertos: tres cementerios purépechas de la región lacustre de Michoacán

This article is an attempt to recover the concept of space from the contribution that in recent times has made the Cultural Geography, from the study posed by the cultural geographer Mike Crang, who proposed the study of this concept as integral, encompassing and relates the forms, cultural events and identities, from a symbolic point of view. Also is an effort to use innovative methodological tools such as the use of literature, photographs, maps and oral testimonies, sources used to support the cultural Geography. This text can be read in two stages, the first in which the reader can enter the analysis on the theory of Mike Crang and possible uses for the study of cemeteries. The second step is an application of the concepts raised in the study of cemeteries in the cemeteries of the lacustrine region of Michoacan, Tzintzuntzan specifically, Cucuchucho and Arocutín, chosen for their great cultural interest and peculiar about death vision