Resum
In this paper, I will underline the importance of the traditional religious institutions of the mountain territory of the Yagur in terms of conservation of present subalpine ecosystems. The traditional religious institutions support the agdal system, which consists on the prohibition to accede to the high mountain pastures during three or four months in spring and which seems to bring ecological benefits. The main hypothesis is that to understand the concept of the agdal and its impacts on the protection of the sub-alpine environment, the bio-ecological, technical, juridical and economical systems, on which the agdal is based, cannot be separated from their symbolic and religious dimension, always in transformation. The question we ask ourselves is: do the believes on the saints of the High Atlas, beyond an element of local cosmological construction, are also a relevant element of the economy and the ecology of the Yagour? The fieldwork observations that I will describe below, suggest that the changes in the traditional religious institutions of the saints of the Atlas, are cause and effect of the way in which these pastures are managed, and that this symbolic system is a relevant part of local economy and ecology.
Idioma original | Spanish |
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Revista | Periferia (Bellaterra) |
Número | 7 |
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Estat de la publicació | Publicada - 2007 |