期刊名称：Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares
印刷版ISSN：1988-8457
出版年度：2009
卷号：64
期号：1
页码：167-176
DOI：10.3989/rdtp.2009.015
语种：Spanish
出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：This paper shows why Cultural Ecology, understood as a method to explore the relationships between the environment and cultural processes, has deeply influenced a whole generation of Mexican anthropologists as a result of the teachings of Ángel Palerm and Eric Wolf. The practical application of Steward’s theories to the processes of Mexican regional formation, linked to the use of hydraulic technologies as part of both adaptative cultural strategies and the political control of water in the process of food production, shows that Cultural Ecology, understood as cultural management of natural environments, as it happens with Economy, is designed and politically manipulated in the context of deeply unequal societies with unadaptative consequences.
