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Authors Information
SequenceTypeName TitleFirst NameLast NameDepartmentInstitute / Affiliation
1 Author Dr. Claudio Palma Mancilla Centro de Investigaciones en Territorio y Ruralidad CUSur Universidad de Guadalajara
Abstract Information
TrackID
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IUAES23_ABS_D6189
Abstract Theme
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P079 - Futures and communities: new anthropological perspectives.
Abstract Title
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Rural communities of the South of Jalisco in rescue and defense of biocultural heritage, (Mexico, 1934-1994)
Short Abstract
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This paper gives an overview of the research findings carried out in a rescuing and safeguarding the biocultural heritage project in El Fresnito, a location of western México. El Fresnito has been harassed during the twentieth century by several regional, national or global socio-territorial processes that affected (influenced) local history. Methodological practices such as participant observation, life stories, memory exercises and construction of a photographic archive in the rural school are exposed, to portray the process of defending the biocultural heritage of the ejido
Long Abstract
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In what follows, findings from the investigation carried out (performed) with the objective of rescuing and preserving the biocultural heritage of El Cerrito community in Jalisco are presented. Such heritage has been constantly barraged during the XX century by a number of different regional, socio territorial, national and global processes which have had a significant impact on their local history. A variety of methodological practices are here presented as well, such as participant observation, life stories, memory recollection exercises, and the construction of photographic achives at the rural (local) school, in order to portray the process of defending the ejido's biocultural heritage (patrimony).

Abstract Keywords
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Territorial defense, Rural community, biocultural patrimony