Conservación, desarrollo, aprovechamiento social
y protección de los conocimientos y recursos
tradicionales en México

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Introduction

Problems addressed

Traditional knowledge is characterized by having been made up in a contextual manner. In the investigative process that originates it questions and answers are made in relation with vital and meaningful processes for their authors. It has practices in its core, but it is not a “practical knowledge”, but knowledge validated in the practice that has as its referents its impact, results and social and cultural significance.

The socio-anthropological dimension of the FONCICYT project deals with the following questions:

The instituting dimension of the socio-cultural practices as knowledge-building processes;
• Indigenous peoples thought processes and epistemic frameworks;
Indigenous peoples as societies with instituting practices and processes of building, validation, use, enjoyment and development of traditional knowledge;
Traditional knowledges within the framework of knowledge societies; encounters and confrontations;
• The historical dimension of practices related to rituality.

Objectives

• Within the anonymity that characterizes the building of traditional knowledge, to characterize the actors that produce it and the features of its production process.
• To recover the sense in which the involved communities and actors consider legitimate the appropriation, use and enjoyment of traditional knowledge, and what is the social acknowledgement system underlying the practices.
• To recover the link between these knowledges and world views or social imageries that contain them, explaining in what dimension and what content express in practices those imageries in the case of polyculture and palm wickerwork.
• To analyze the transit between “symbolic borders” established by societies in contact, acknowledging the manner in which communication processes are established among societies that live together in multicultural contexts.

Methodology

We did research in nine communities from La Montaña, Guerrero, also a weekly seminar and online exchanges.

Expected results

• Analysis of the polyculture and pal practices;
• Educational materials for the participant communities;
• A comparative analysis of the indigenous and national norms regarding property and use rights.

Participants:

María Victoria Avilés, Abel Barrera, María Luisa Santiago, Graciela Salazar, Eurídice Sosa, y Marcela Tovar

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Conservación, desarrollo, aprovechamiento social y protección de los conocimientos y recursos tradicionales en México

Socio-anthropological approach