Traditional mortars with chucum in Yucatan, Mexico, as biocultural heritage
- Autores: Maridel María Martínez Barreiro, Luis Fernando Guerrero Baca
- Localización: Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability: Heritage 2022 International Conference / coord. por Camilla Mileto, Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares, Valentina Cristini, Lidia García Soriano, 2022, ISBN 978-84-1396-020-3, págs. 409-416
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The proposed presentation aims to characterize as biocultural heritage, the traditional construction technique of Mayan origin used to elaborate mortars with chucum (Harvadia Albi-cans) in Yucatán, Mexico. The aim is trying to keep alive the complex catalog of beliefs and traditions, the knowledge and productive practices specified in the materialization of the construction system whose origin is millenary. The study carries out the so-called “k-c-p complex (kosmos, corpus, and praxis)” which is used in ethnoecology in order to analyze documented information obtained in interviews with native teachers belonging to Mayan communities and construction surveys applied to current generations. The purpose is to increase its value to promote its safeguarding and its application in sustainable construction, conservation, and restoration of heritage buildings. Procedures are documented for the elaboration of the plant extract that would prevent the indiscriminate use of chucum in the industry. And finally, the importance of preserving learning scenarios to promote the transmission of traditional knowledge within indigenous people, for its future safeguarding is detailed.
