Biocultugrafía: recorridos participativos y colaborativos desde los cuerpos-territorios

Abstract

The article reflects on ethnographic work in biocultural territories. A bibliographic review and content analysis were used. A brief discussion of the status of environmental ecological ethnography is presented and the reciprocal relational ontology of being in and with biocultural territories is explained. Subsequently, biocultugraphy is described as an experiential method of raising knowledge from the ontology of the body-territory: observe-look to feel the experiential, the conversation and dialogue of beings-knowledge-doing, and the feeling of living. Afterwards, some tools such as biocultural territorial cartography and the territorial transect are proposed. One of the final considerations is the need for an epistemic and ontological vindication of the body, and of the biocultural subject; as well as the co-production of knowledge in a collaborative way; and that this knowledge can contribute to the solution of problems from the protagonism and empowerment of territorial actors and communities in the face of their ecological, environmental, economic, productive, sociocultural and political-institutional problems.