Victoria Quintero Morón

Cork oak woodlands are socio-ecosystems recognized as biodiversity hotspots, a fundamental economic source for companies and local communities as well as an identitarian landscape for residents and visitors. Cork oak woodlands, however, are facing tree mortality and lack of regeneration. Considering the oak decline scenario, we present Iberian cork oak montado/dehesa as a socio-ecosystem facing climate change, management transformations, local knowledge crisis and social uncertainty. We review montados/dehesas research through time and by different scholar perspectives. We defend that from an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective, including the experience and evidence observed in terrain, debate should be stimulated, and novel conceptual approaches may contribute to finding solutions. We argue that the confluence of ecology, genetics, anthropology and local knowledge can be explored to unveil the complexities and the challenges of these socio-ecosystems and contribute to prevent and mitigate threats to it. We propose a methodological approach built together with scientists, managers and workers, that can explore oak translocations, socio-ecological interactions models, knowledge transfer and other ways to overcome Iberian cork oak woodlands socio-environmental crisis.

The analysis of LGBT+ memories and identities has been neglected in processes of heritagisation. This is despite numerous attempts undertaken by various institutions to promote a more inclusive notion of heritage, which incorporates cultural diversity and the demands of social sectors that have previously been ignored in heritage policies. This study contributes to the literature by examining the incipient recognition of heritage that contributes to the visibility and normalisation of sexual diversity. We focus on tourism and leisure contexts, which have played an important role in disseminating certain perspectives on sexual diversity. Specifically, we highlight how the confluence of the market, transformations in heritage systems, and ways of depicting the LGBT+ narrative reveals new processes of recognition for LGBT+ heritage. In the process of heritagisation, tourism and leisure serve as narrative pillars of memories and identities. This study explores these aspects by focusing on a Spanish town, Torremolinos, which has become one of the most important international LGBT+ tourist destinations.

The contradictions embedded in the safeguarding practices of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding practices have been the focus of analysis for the last couple of decades. In addition, the positioning, roles of scholars and their dilemmas are commonly analysed as a dual polarization: those scholars who analyse and criticise ICH regimes from the outside; as opposed to those who participate with a critical academic perspective in ICH safeguarding practices. This article adopts a different approach and proposes the concept “multi-ontological dissonances”. By this term, we refer to the simultaneous ontologies of ICH that take place both in the different actors involved in ICH heritage regimes and in the safeguarding instruments themselves. We analyse three levels of dissonances: various models and concepts of ICH coexist in the practices and discourses among different ICH researchers/specialists; among the safeguarding instruments and the researchers and even inside a single researcher/specialist. The case of the Fiesta of the Patios in Cordova will be used as an example of the multi-ontological dissonances in safeguarding practices.

Following the closure of the mines and the crisis in agriculture, an alternative process of cultural and natural `heritagization' has been taking place in certain areas of Andalusia with a marked tourist focus. Productive spaces have been transformed into post-mining and post-agrarian landscapes. The aim of this article is to analyse representations and perceptions of surroundings in these contexts through the discourse of those who have experienced these changes most acutely: farmers and miners. This interpretation invites reflection regarding the concept of nature in the western world. Nature is one of our most genuine cultural creations, but we cannot ignore that, in addition to its discursive dimension, it also has a perceptive component. Hence, the analysis carried out here seeks to gain a more in-depth understanding of the perceptive frames through which nature acquires meaning and significance. The dual perceptive and discursive dimension of nature yields a more comprehensive understanding of how landscapes become spaces for resistance and identity.

Las nuevas definiciones en torno al Patrimonio Cultural y el desarrollo de las legislaciones en torno al patrimonio etnográfico plantean necesidades no contempladas hasta hoy, como los sistemas de documentación y las pautas a seguir para la protección del denominado patrimonio inmaterial. Sin entrar en debates teóricos, aunque con una conceptualización que sustenta este diseño, en este texto hemos intentado detallar los módulos y campos de una Base de Datos sobre Patrimonio Intangible en Andalucía como documento base de trabajo. Esta propuesta de documentación trata de cumplir dos objetivos fundamentales: Por una parte, la herramienta documental tratará de aunar los requisitos de información de los antropólogos con las necesidades de gestión y tutela de la Administración y de otros organismos; por otra par te, más que plantear un diseño acabado, lo que nos proponemos es abrir el debate e ir estableciendo algunos elementos de consenso entre administraciones y asociaciones que están llevando a cabo trabajos sobre este patrimonio

A pesar de la reciente incorporación de la valoración etnológica para la clasificación y definición de nuestro patrimonio y la escasa presencia de profesionales en las instituciones directamente dedicadas a la gestión del patrimonio, se han venido desarrollando investigaciones que han asentado una metodología para la sistematización de la información sobre los bienes patrimoniales desde una perspectiva antropológica. Sin embargo, es cierto que ha habido una carencia en una de las más importantes herramientas para su gestión: los inventarios. En este artículo se abordan cuestiones sobre la filosofía de documentación del patrimonio y la conformación del Sistema de Información del Patrimonio Etnológico en el Centro de Documentación del IAPH. El Sistema de Información Etnológico es uno de los sistemas temáticos que integran el Sistema de Información del Patrimonio Histórico de Andalucía (SIPHA)