Listening to elders: transdisciplinarity, birds and people to cultivate biocultural memory

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This article presents an initiative and proposes a transdisciplinary methodology to cultivate biocultural memory based on the processes of participation and materialization in (educational) communities-of-practice. We implemented the project "Listening to elders" that sought to facilitate intergenerational dialogues in three mapuche schools (with approximately 90 children) in Wallmapu, Chile. Listening to elders used birds as the basis of constructing local narratives about the territory. We co-created a 5-Step cycle to promote participation and materialization. The children participated in an abstraction exercise to give meaning to the narratives they constructed themselves to create positive memes involving birds. These memes were communicated within and beyond their communities. The authors conclude that the experiences of elders must be honored in communities to counter the current dynamic involving the extinction of biocultural experience.

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Ibarra, J. T., Caviedes, J., Barreau, A., Pessa, N., Valenzuela, J., Navarro-Manquelef, S., & Pizarro, J. C. (2022). Listening to elders: transdisciplinarity, birds and people to cultivate biocultural memory. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ninez y Juventud, 20(3), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.11600/rlcsnj.20.2.4861

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