Resumen

This research assistance, Boards is narrated: local identity of the population of the of the high zone of the Cañon del Combeima, from the recognition of the social representations and characterization of cultural dynamics. It is developed under the modality of qualitative analysis of content, defined by Mayring (2000) "within this framework as an empirical approach, of methodological analysis, and of the control of texts within their communication contexts, following analytical rules of content and models by step, without quantification by means." (Cáceres, 2003) The radial works that were presented for the radial fair during the second period of 2013 and the two semesters of 2014 by students of Social Communication and Journalism of the University of Ibagué; they allowed a rapprochement with the inhabitants of Juntas, corregimiento número siete de Ibagué, capital city of the department of Tolima. The works were classified within the chronic genre and reportage, passing for this assistance. of research, by a selection oriented by journalistic knowledge, where the paper is assumed by characters and cultural dynamics that by means of the theory of the social representations, determine the elements of identity in this population of the Canyon. of the Combeima. The theory of social representations, on the other hand, allows for the recognition of the of the inhabitants, the dynamics that as a whole they recognize within the social nucleus that the is part of something else, determining who they are within a field of expertise. meanings that transit through language, which allows "activating a vast range of that are already immersed in our linguistic and cultural systems."