Salinas Grandes
Relations Between Ethnoecology and Ecosemiotics
The kosmos/syntactics in Salinas Grandes is represented by people’s beliefs, the structure of nature, and its classification, as seen in Table 1 and Figure 1. All perceived signs, such as the occurrence of climatic events, soil characteristics, water quality, plants and animals, environments have a meaning in people’s life, as we have seen, and these meanings are set in the corpus/semantics.
For example, grass scarcity and the animals’ sanity, act as signs of weather conditions such as the occurrence of rainfall or drought, and these are directly related to future economic conditions of the community. The physiognomy of the different zones, also act like signs of productive potentiality and are …show more content…
The fluctuation can break the system’s resilience, taking it to a bifurcation point: the system can either dissolve or reach a new organization of a higher order (Kotov 2002). This means that the exchange of information and different interpretations over nature among semiospheres (especially local semiosphere), can either threaten people’s perception and break the community, or drive the community into a new and more resilient sphere of knowledge, into the sphere of Integral Ecology (Esbjörn-Hargens and Zimmerman 2009), such as happens with the recently discussed Multiple Evidence Base approach (Tengö et al. 2014) or the Biocultural approach (Gavin et al. 2015). The real challenge for all these approaches is to find the way to imbalance power over all forms of knowledge across the objective/interobjective/subjective/intersubjective …show more content…
2014). Information theory may provide some interesting indicators as the information index to do so. Table 2 shows that known uses for plants by the local communities are quite inferior to those applied in other regions. Therefore, the information offered by each species is superior compared with global knowledge. However, the close values of entropy between local and global semiospheres mean the local appraisement about some species is similar to the appraisement to the same species by communities in different regions. The lower number of potential uses respect global knowledge, means that possibly local acquis can grow with the exchange of information between different semiospheres.
Table 3 shows that known uses for wild animals by the local communities are close to the potential knowledge about this resource. Information offered by each species is similar compared with global knowledge. As happens with plants, the close values of entropy between local and global semiospheres mean that the proportion of uses for each animal species is alike. The close number of potential uses respect global knowledge, means that local acquis cannot grow with the exchange of information between different
The kosmos/syntactics in Salinas Grandes is represented by people’s beliefs, the structure of nature, and its classification, as seen in Table 1 and Figure 1. All perceived signs, such as the occurrence of climatic events, soil characteristics, water quality, plants and animals, environments have a meaning in people’s life, as we have seen, and these meanings are set in the corpus/semantics.
For example, grass scarcity and the animals’ sanity, act as signs of weather conditions such as the occurrence of rainfall or drought, and these are directly related to future economic conditions of the community. The physiognomy of the different zones, also act like signs of productive potentiality and are …show more content…
The fluctuation can break the system’s resilience, taking it to a bifurcation point: the system can either dissolve or reach a new organization of a higher order (Kotov 2002). This means that the exchange of information and different interpretations over nature among semiospheres (especially local semiosphere), can either threaten people’s perception and break the community, or drive the community into a new and more resilient sphere of knowledge, into the sphere of Integral Ecology (Esbjörn-Hargens and Zimmerman 2009), such as happens with the recently discussed Multiple Evidence Base approach (Tengö et al. 2014) or the Biocultural approach (Gavin et al. 2015). The real challenge for all these approaches is to find the way to imbalance power over all forms of knowledge across the objective/interobjective/subjective/intersubjective …show more content…
2014). Information theory may provide some interesting indicators as the information index to do so. Table 2 shows that known uses for plants by the local communities are quite inferior to those applied in other regions. Therefore, the information offered by each species is superior compared with global knowledge. However, the close values of entropy between local and global semiospheres mean the local appraisement about some species is similar to the appraisement to the same species by communities in different regions. The lower number of potential uses respect global knowledge, means that possibly local acquis can grow with the exchange of information between different semiospheres.
Table 3 shows that known uses for wild animals by the local communities are close to the potential knowledge about this resource. Information offered by each species is similar compared with global knowledge. As happens with plants, the close values of entropy between local and global semiospheres mean that the proportion of uses for each animal species is alike. The close number of potential uses respect global knowledge, means that local acquis cannot grow with the exchange of information between different