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"Heritage” appropriation related to natural objects: new outlooks for ethnoecology?

Abstract

International audience Result of a collaboration between two former students from the National Museum of Natural History, this poster aims to cross their young ethnoecologist views on issues of patrimonialisation (Rautenberg, 2004) and invention of tradition (Hobsbawm et Ranger,1992).Indeed, these thematic are linked to a current debate about the recognition and enhancement of “traditional” intelligences and practices. It occurs in the context of a globalized world that breakdowns landmarks, considering only one way for technical progress. Though, the heritage development process based on knowledge, techniques and products is not only a will to go backward: choices made about “what makes tradition” by stakeholders are in an ongoing process.These processes are part ethnoecology’s research purpose: to inform the existing relationships between men, societies and their natural environment. While focusing on local knowledge, ethnoecologists face situations of heritage creation based on environmental products. Understanding these situations of knowledge and practices re-appropriation by its holders is thus facing new issues:- Which knowledge is to be promoted? Products currently valued as heritage are the result of a combination of knowledge and practices developed out of normative systems and based on sensory perceptions: how to acknowledge, describe and systematize it?- Why and for whom promote it? The heritage development process is made out of different rhetoric and justification, between local issues, global perspectives and external pressures: what is the dynamic of knowledge against this background? - How to face the issues of the necessary standardization of local knowledge, and tempt to go beyond?Through examples of the heritage creation of two natural objects - earth as a building material in France and mezcal (agave spirit), emblematic product of Mexico - we offer to address and illustrate these issues and to link them with general purposes of ethnoecology and natural sciences.

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