Diversas facetas de las interacciones entre los humanos y los animales: algunos registros en las Américas

Abstract

Since the end of the 20th century, a trend has been developing where the existing borders, imposed from the enlightenment, between the natural and the cultural have been blurring. Even this traditional opposition, which saw humanity as the culminating product, is gradually being replaced by a mosaic concept of diversities, generated by the interactions between biodiversity and cultures, both human and non-human. These elements have generated new approaches, such as the concept of bioculturality and the ontological turn, among several others, in which several of them that derive, are inserted or are experiences in models of participation and social empowerment.

The compilation presented here is a direct product of this trend, comprising eight articles, with two main axes; first, it is a tour of several points in the Americas, such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay and Mexico. The second driving axis, are the human-animal interactions, where various strategies for their analysis are presented, ranging from those that integrate a diachronic vision, integrating historical and ethnozoological information, to those who address this interaction more in specific time spaces, whether from the past or from current contexts.

All of them coincide in addressing, in one way or another, the issue of the management and domestication of animals in the Americas, which shows us this issue as multifaceted and multidisciplinary, but in the current environmental and cultural situation of the Americas, is indispensable, and in some point of view, urgent.