Raramuri pathways to hold or to end of the world. Ethnographic theory, climate change and anthropocene

Abstract

This article aims to question how the premises and implications of climate change and of the Anthropocene are present, in a prior and parallel way, in Raramuri theory-practice, specifically, through the concept of caminar-caminos and native actions dedicated to "caring for the environment" and "hold the world. " This ethnographic theory recognizes a multiplicity of agents that are internal and external to the Kawi (mountain, mountains, world, land, homeland), as well as links that generate divergences and immeasurable frictions. In this sense, I can speak of cosmopolitical strategies. All of this demonstrates that the Raramuri have long reflected on the impact of human actions on the environment, whether by taking care of it, or by collaborating with the latent risk that the world ends, as inscribed in their myths of origin. In Raramuri terms, the links, whether individual or collective, and concrete actions will determine the world that will be inhabited, since following a specific path-be it the path of the ancestors (anayaguari boe) or the other path (si'nu boe)-implies participating in particular flows of regenerative degenerative relationships and substances.