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      De las percepciones a las perspectivas ambientales: Una reflexión teórica sobre la antropología y la temática ambiental Translated title: From Environmental Perceptions to Environmental Perspectives: A Reflection on the Role Anthropology in Environmental Issues

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          En México los estudios sobre percepción ambiental parten, generalmente, de un enfoque constructivista que separa los dominios de lo natural y lo humano, entendiendo a la naturaleza como producto de la construcción social. Sin embargo, esta visión tiene algunas desventajas, porque al suponer a la naturaleza como un producto cultural, la cultura carecería de base o sustento sobre la cual puedan desarrollarse los significados. Por otra parte, la visión antiesencialista sobrestima la capacidad del hombre de influir en la naturaleza, al mismo tiempo que debilita el poder de transformación sociocultural de la misma. Para superar estas dificultades, parece necesario considerar que los seres humanos no habitan un mundo culturalmente construido en su totalidad, y que la naturaleza tiene la capacidad de influenciarlos directamente, más allá de su experiencia social. El objetivo de este ensayo es incorporar estas reflexiones al estudio de las percepciones ambientales, proponiendo el concepto de perspectiva ambiental como un elemento útil para considerar a la naturaleza en sí misma, como fuente de significados y para superar la dualidad entre naturaleza y sociedad. El concepto de perspectiva ambiental nos permite comprender que dentro de la antropología ambiental no lidiamos con distintas construcciones de lo natural, sino en realidad con ambientes diferentes.

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          Mexican studies on environmental perception are usually undertaken from a constructivist approach, which separates the natural from the human, considering the natural as a social construct. This point of view has its shortcomings. When we see the natural as a cultural product, culture looses the foundation on which meanings can be developed. On the other hand, a purely anti-essentialist approach overestimates human power to influence nature, and weakens at the same time nature's capacity for sociocultural transformation. To overcome these difficulties we need to consider that humans do not inhabit a world that is culturally constructed in its entirety, and that nature has the means to influence them directly, beyond their social experience. The purpose of this essay is to incorporate these ideas to the study of environmental perceptions, introducing the concept of environmental perspective as a useful element for considering nature in itself as a source of meanings and to overcome the dichotomy between nature and society. The concept of environmental perspective allows us to understand that environmental anthropology does not deal with different constructions of the natural, but with different environments.

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                Journal
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                Nueva antropología
                Nueva antropol
                Nueva Antropología A.C. (México, DF, Mexico )
                0185-0636
                June 2008
                : 21
                : 68
                : 75-87
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                [01] Cuernavaca Morelos orgnameUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México orgdiv1Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias México leticiad@ 123456servidor.unam.mx
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                S0185-06362008000100005 S0185-0636(08)02106800005
                e2650b8d-11b1-4518-9495-5b646eff549e

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                constructivismo,percepciones,perspectivas ambientales,conservación,conservation,environmental perspectives,environmental perceptions,constructivism

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