| Journal: | Investigaciones geográficas - Instituto de Geografía. UNAM |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000402343 |
| ISSN: | 0188-4611 |
| Authors: | Pulido Secundino, Juan1 Bocco Verdinelli, Gerardo1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Morelia, Michoacán. México |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Season: | Abr |
| Number: | 89 |
| Pages: | 41-57 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Spanish abstract | En Comachuén, una comunidad indígena de la Sierra Purépecha, Michoacán, occidente de México, los productores agrícolas tienen un amplio conocimiento sobre sus paisajes y tierras los cuales clasifican con diversos criterios y en diferentes niveles. Los paisajes son unidades territoriales de gran significancia en la vida cotidiana de la comunidad. El concepto de tierra que utilizan es de carácter sistémico e integrador. Las tierras agrícolas son clasificadas con base en diversos criterios como: ubicación, clima, propiedades organolépticas y calidad/fertilidad. La interpretación del conocimiento etnogeográfico de esta comunidad muestra una gran complejidad en sus conceptos y en algunos casos con equivalencias con los del conocimiento científico. En la literatura científica se evidencia la gran riqueza de cimientos sobre el paisaje en diversas partes del mundo, particularmente en grupos indígenas o comunidades tradicionales A pesar de esta riqueza cultural, estos conocimientos no están suficientemente documentados y corren el riesgo de perderse conforme los grupos culturales tradicionales tienden a ser desarticulados. El objetivo de este trabajo es documentar y analizar el conocimiento etnogeográfico de una comunidad indígena y resaltar su importancia para eventuales planes de uso/conservación de recursos naturales y culturales al nivel local y regional |
| English abstract | 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.1 Participatory mapping was recorded on a hard copy at a detailed scale of a digital elevation model and satellite imagery depicting terrain, and land-use. We thus differentiated terrain and land suitability classes, as well as peasant landscape mapping units. These schemes are hierarchic, and encompass different, nested levels of generalization. The first and second levels are discriminated by climatic conditions, whilst the third corresponds to local landscape classe |
| Disciplines: | Geografía, Antropología, Economía |
| Keyword: | Geografía económica y regional, Etnología y antropología social, Economía agrícola, Conocimiento tradicional, Etnogeografía, Etnoedafología, Agricultura, Purépechas, Michoacán, México |
| Keyword: | Geography, Anthropology, Economics, Economic and regional geography, Ethnology and social anthropology, Agricultural economics, Traditional knowledge, Ethnogeography, Ethnopedology, Agriculture, Purepechas, Michoacan, Mexico |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
