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Applying Epistemic Approach to Analyze Bio-intercultural Relationships

Among Local Indigenous People and Nature

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 Chapter 15
Applying Epistemic Approach to Analyze
Bio-intercultural Relationships Among
Local Indigenous People and Nature

Magdalena Lagunas-Vázques

Abstract  This chapter presents a review of the socio-historic and cultural knowl-
edge that conditions the ways of understanding, interpreting, and relating in and
with the natural world from an intercultural perspective on the part of the local
indigenous inhabitants of the natural protected areas (NPA) of Latin America. The
Good Living theory will be the philosophical approach to develop the present analy-
sis, from the ancestral indigenous American perspective, which is considered an
integrating theoretical framework with a cosmic approach and not anthropocentric.

Keywords  Interculturality · Intercultural dialogue · Biocultural conservation ·

Latin America

15.1  Introduction

The knowledge that conditions the ways of thinking, interpreting, and connecting in
and with the natural world, from an intercultural perspective on the part of the local
indigenous inhabitants of natural protected areas (NPA) of Latin America, is found
in at least two large regions where two civilizations developed. The Mesoamerican
and the Andean civilizations are two of the few thousand-year-old civilizations
which modern society has inherited from the ancient world. The former encom-
passes center and southeast Mexico and practically all Central America (Díaz and
Escobar 2006), while the latter, also known as Inca or Incan, is located in South
America in the current nations of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and
Argentina (Milla 1983; Mann 2006). Below, certain ancient historic generalizations
about both will be described. This will concisely allow envisaging relationships,
interactions, and knowledge said civilizations had about the nature that surrounded

M. Lagunas-Vázques (*)
CONACYT-CCGS Centro de Cambio Global y La Sustentabilidad,
Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico

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