Abstract

MENDOZA FRAGOSO, Ariana. Water Ontologies and Power Relations around the Waterscape in the Mazahua Indigenous Territory in México. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2019, vol.55, n.1, pp.91-118. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.572.

This article approaches the water landscape as the way in which water is perceived and intervened by different sociocultural groups. I conceive the landscape in a relational way: from a material dimension, which recognizes the traces that the practices of societies imprint on nature. And from an ontological one, that includes water representations, values, and epistemologies of different social actors. I analyze the waterscape as the space of power in which different ontologies and political practices are assembled, based on the case of the Mazahua indigenous communities that inhabit the southwest mountains of the State of Mexico, a territory from where 25% of the water consumed by Mexico City and its metropolitan area is transferred.

Keywords : waterscape; Mazahuas; hydraulic infrastructure; power; water ontologies.

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