ABSTRACT

The article tries to carry out a critical review on the conception that ethnobiological and anthropological studies sustain regarding the relationship between indigenous knowledge and the environment, taking as a particular case the studies on knowledge of the P’urhépecha, people settled in Michoacán, Mexico. Without denying the advances regarding the field of indigenous knowledge, there are three problematic axes presented by the analyzed works: the tendency to naturalize knowledge and the indigenous-nature relationship; to reify indigenous knowledge a whose singularity and opposition to western knowledge lies in you immunity to social change; lastly, the difficulties of making visible the power relations that mediate the production and reproduction of knowledge, where indigenous peoples as agents confront, with other internal or external agents, in a struggle for meaning, appropriation and control of processes of validity of knowledge and truth, in contexts of social change and environmental deterioration.

摘要

本文试图对民族生物学和人类学研究所持的关于土著知识与环境关系的概念进行批判性的回顾，并以墨西哥米却肯人的 P'urhépecha 人的知识研究为例。在不否认土著知识领域的进步的情况下，所分析的作品提出了三个有问题的轴：知识自然化的趋势和土著与自然的关系；将土著知识具体化，其独特性和对西方知识的反对在于你对社会变革的免疫力；最后，在土著人民作为代理人与其他内部或外部代理人面对的情况下，难以使调解知识生产和再生产的权力关系变得可见，