Traditional landscape knowledge. The case of a purépecha indigenous community, Western Mexico
The study of indigenous groups everywhere in the world indicates a thorough knowledge in natural resources, including soils, plants, animals, and more widely in landscape and landscape management in space and time. During centuries indigenous communities have established a strong relationship with t...
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| description | The study of indigenous groups everywhere in the world indicates a thorough knowledge in natural resources, including soils, plants, animals, and more widely in landscape and landscape management in space and time. During centuries indigenous communities have established a strong relationship with their natural environments, and have developed knowledge systems and classificatory frameworks for both biotic and non biotic landscape components. The vision is however integrated, holistic, and society is actually perceived as embedded in nature. Studying these knowledge systems is important because despite their contribution to landscape understanding especially in tropical regions, they run the risk of being lost together with the societies that create them. In addition, in spite of substantial research efforts, these systems have been poorly documented. The purpose of this article is to document and analyze the ethnogeographic, landscape knowledge in Comachuen, a purepecha community in the State of Michoacán, and to highlight its usefulness in natural resource management. To this end, we developed a co-investigation, participatory scheme, involving a group of community members, with whom we work during several months, in the field, between 2008 and 2010. Field work consisted on geographic transects along forests and cropland, coupled to in-depth interviews, to 24 local producers, all of them native speakers of the purepecha language. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-29733821b8b4439c99613fbee8ac2dc12022-12-21T19:14:06ZengUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoInvestigaciones Geográficas0188-46112448-72792016-03-0108910.14350/rig.4647841669Traditional landscape knowledge. The case of a purépecha indigenous community, Western MexicoJuan Pulido Secundino0Gerardo Bocco Verdinell1Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (CIGA-UNAM), y Universidad Autónoma Chapingo campus Morelis, Periférico Independencia Pte. No. 1000, Col. Lomas del Valle, 58170, Morelia, Michoacán.Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (CIGA-UNAM), Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro No. 8701, Col. Ex Hacienda San José de la Huerta, 58190, Morelia, Michoacán.The study of indigenous groups everywhere in the world indicates a thorough knowledge in natural resources, including soils, plants, animals, and more widely in landscape and landscape management in space and time. During centuries indigenous communities have established a strong relationship with their natural environments, and have developed knowledge systems and classificatory frameworks for both biotic and non biotic landscape components. The vision is however integrated, holistic, and society is actually perceived as embedded in nature. Studying these knowledge systems is important because despite their contribution to landscape understanding especially in tropical regions, they run the risk of being lost together with the societies that create them. In addition, in spite of substantial research efforts, these systems have been poorly documented. The purpose of this article is to document and analyze the ethnogeographic, landscape knowledge in Comachuen, a purepecha community in the State of Michoacán, and to highlight its usefulness in natural resource management. To this end, we developed a co-investigation, participatory scheme, involving a group of community members, with whom we work during several months, in the field, between 2008 and 2010. Field work consisted on geographic transects along forests and cropland, coupled to in-depth interviews, to 24 local producers, all of them native speakers of the purepecha language.http://www.investigacionesgeograficas.unam.mx/index.php/rig/article/view/46478Conocimiento tradicionaletnogeografíaetnoedafologíatierras agrícolascultura purépechaMichoacán |
| spellingShingle | Juan Pulido Secundino Gerardo Bocco Verdinell Traditional landscape knowledge. The case of a purépecha indigenous community, Western Mexico Investigaciones Geográficas Conocimiento tradicional etnogeografía etnoedafología tierras agrícolas cultura purépecha Michoacán |
| title | Traditional landscape knowledge. The case of a purépecha indigenous community, Western Mexico |
| title_full | Traditional landscape knowledge. The case of a purépecha indigenous community, Western Mexico |
| title_fullStr | Traditional landscape knowledge. The case of a purépecha indigenous community, Western Mexico |
| title_full_unstemmed | Traditional landscape knowledge. The case of a purépecha indigenous community, Western Mexico |
| title_short | Traditional landscape knowledge. The case of a purépecha indigenous community, Western Mexico |
| title_sort | traditional landscape knowledge the case of a purepecha indigenous community western mexico |
| topic | Conocimiento tradicional etnogeografía etnoedafología tierras agrícolas cultura purépecha Michoacán |
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