Biocultural memory of reciprocity: the Mapuche trafkintu as social‑ecological relationships of care and vindication

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dc.article.number59
dc.catalogadorpva
dc.contributor.authorSalazar Preece, Gonzalo
dc.contributor.authorReyes Ávila, Magdalena Alejandra
dc.contributor.authorKaulen-Luks, Santiago
dc.contributor.authorBarrera Hernández, María Guadalupe
dc.contributor.authorBurgos, Alison
dc.contributor.authorIbarra Eliessetch, José Tomás
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-29T19:20:02Z
dc.date.available2025-09-29T19:20:02Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.date.updated2025-08-31T00:05:57Z
dc.description.abstractReconsidering the relationship between humans and more-than-human beings amid global crises has brought reciprocity practices between people and biodiversity to the forefront. We examine social-ecological reciprocity practices within Indigenous territories and their direct connection to biocultural memory. Specifically, we explore the Mapuche practice of trafkintu in the Andean zone of Wallmapu, La Araucanía region of southern Chile. Using a mixed-methods framework, from a relational perspective, we integrate spatial analysis of a seed exchange network involving 80 local farmers, with an ethnographic and collaborative phase with 12 Mapuche women—who are part of this network—over three years. We found that social-ecological reciprocity practices—like those in the trafkintu—are constitutive of a biocultural memory. This biocultural memory has been vital for sustaining and transforming social-ecological reciprocity practices amid colonial and neo-colonial pressures. We term this recursion the “memory of reciprocity.” This provides key insights into how reciprocity manifests as a quality of complex social-ecological relationships, marked by mutual care among people, seeds, and other more-than-human beings. It also helps us understand how, amid the colonialism and dispossession endured by Indigenous peoples for centuries, reciprocity has been essential to survival and vindication.
dc.fechaingreso.objetodigital2025-08-31
dc.format.extent15 páginas
dc.fuente.origenBiomed Central
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2025 Aug 27;21(1):59
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s13002-025-00811-2
dc.identifier.issn1746-4269
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-025-00811-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/105815
dc.information.autorucSede Regional de Villarrica; Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; 0000-0001-9442-5330; 119337
dc.information.autorucEscuela de Antropología; Reyes Ávila, Magdalena Alejandra; S/I; 1049102
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Agronomía e Ingenieria Forestal; Barrera Hernández, María Guadalupe; S/I; 1070748
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Agronomía e Ingenieria Forestal; Ibarra Eliessetch, José Tomás; 0000-0002-7705-3974; 120091
dc.issue.numero1
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido completo
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.revistaJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.rights.holderThe Author(s)
dc.rights.licenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectBiocultural memory
dc.subjectReciprocity
dc.subjectIndigenous relations
dc.subjectSocial-ecological systems
dc.subjectRelational methodology
dc.subject.ddc600
dc.subject.deweyTecnologíaes_ES
dc.titleBiocultural memory of reciprocity: the Mapuche trafkintu as social‑ecological relationships of care and vindication
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen21
sipa.codpersvinculados119337
sipa.codpersvinculados1049102
sipa.codpersvinculados1070748
sipa.codpersvinculados120091
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