Memoria intertextual y narrativa en la conformación de las ontologías de la naturaleza en las comunidades mazahuas de México: eflexiones desde la ecología política latinoamericana

Abstract

This text is a reflection from the contributions of Latin American political ecology. We analyze intertextual memory to interpret the relational ontology and environmental rationality expressed by the Mazahua communities in the State of Mexico. We have focused on these communities, since their narrative constructs and diverse cultural practices conceive of nature as an integral whole, a living entity. This ontological perspectiveis a way of being in the world and represents other ways of coexistence with the environment. Methodologically, fieldworkin the Mazahuas communities near the Lerma and Cutzamala rivers was conducted. Based on ethnography and indepth interviews, the perception of water and nature was analyzed as a narrative construction of social memory in the process of transformation of the environment in indigenous territories.