Cosmologies, Heritagization and Eco-symbols in the Catalan Pyrinees within a Global Perspective

  • Joan Frigolé Reixach Departamento de Antropología cultural y social, Universitat de Barcelona
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RASO.2012.v21.40054
Keywords: Cosmology, heritagization, eco-symbol, natural park, landscape’s wilderness

Abstract

The paper analyses the relationship between diverse cosmologies, the heritagization of culture  and nature and the eco-symbols in a former peasant territory reshaped by the collapse of peasant economy, the depopulation and the development of a service economy. The creation of a natural park, the progressive landscape’s wilderness and the presence of new categories of people set the conditions for the coexistence of different perceptions and practices relative to nature. The paper distinguishes three cosmologies with different conceptions of nature and their relationship with society. Both the heritagization of nature and the cosmology based on the notion of biodiversity generate eco-symbols that have a great importance for enterprises as they add value to its logos and brands in a global market. This is one of the three global references that contextualize local ethnography.

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Joan Frigolé Reixach, Departamento de Antropología cultural y social, Universitat de Barcelona

Catedrático de Antropología social de la Universidad de Barcelona. Investigación de campo en Calasparra (Murcia) en la primera mitad de 1970, en la Sierra de los Filabres (Almería) entre 1986 y 1987 y en el Prepirineo catalán entre 2002 y 2010. Trabajos etnográficos: Llevarse la novia (1984; tercera edición ampliada, 1999) Un etnólogo en el teatro. Ensayo antropológico sobre Federico García Lorca (1995). Un hombre. Clase, cultura y género en el relato de un trabajador (1998). Dones que anaven pel món. Estudi etnográfic de les trementinaires de la vall de la Vansa i Tuixent (2005; tercera edición, 2007). Ha contribuido al libro de Vaccaro y Beltran, Social And Ecological History Of The Pyrenees, State, Market, and Landscape. (2010). Es co-editor de Globalización y localidad. Perspectiva etnográfica (2006) y Constructing Cultural and Natural Heritage (2010). Ha escrito sobre genocidio desde una perspectiva antropológica: Cultura y genocidio (2003): “The extreme faces of power: genocide, massacre and ethnic cleansing” Kula (2008) y “Genocidio y procreación” Alteridades (2009).

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Published
2012-09-17
How to Cite
Frigolé Reixach J. (2012). Cosmologies, Heritagization and Eco-symbols in the Catalan Pyrinees within a Global Perspective. Revista de Antropología Social, 21, 173-196. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RASO.2012.v21.40054
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Vol. 21 (2012): Antropología, Globalización y Prácticas Etnográficas
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Monographic

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