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- Title
El territorio como cuerpo, el agua como sangre y el entorno como vida: reflexiones antropológicas sobre ecocosmologías hidráulicas en Pegalajar (Andalucía-España).
- Authors
Cruzada, Santiago M.; Aguilar-Miranda, María Teresa; Díaz-Aguilar, Antonio Luis
- Abstract
The village of Pegalajar, a town in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in the province of Jaén (Andalusia, Spain), took life and body from an abundant source of water. From immemorial times, the water was harnessed and managed through a major hydro-agricultural system that allowed people to live in a barren and arid environment. In 1988 the government begins to succumb due to abusive extractions which were usurping uncontrolledly peripheral aquifer systems, and with it the image and life of the village. The territory of Pegalajar is presented, nevertheless, as a specific tissue of relationships that go beyond the human, including, in part of the local collective ideology, non-human elements of the environment. In this paper we present an analysis that brings us closer to understanding ecocosmologies that occur within the socio-ecosystem of the town, reflecting on the different ways in which people understand their environment and interacts with it.
- Publication
Boletin de Antropologia, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 52, p151
- ISSN
0120-2510
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17533/udea.boan.v31n52a11