Anti-colonial-modern ecosis and decolonial transmodern ecosis. An approach to the thematization of the constitutive process of a civilizational project

Abstract

The concept of écosis is treated and proposed by León-Portilla in his works: Acculturation and Ecosis (1965) and Cultures in Danger (1976) to thematize in the field of anthropology the processes of acculturation and loss of identity of a group or community that comes into contact with another (or others) and reciprocally affects giving rise to new forms of relationships, both practical and productive, that is, new forms of intersubjective relationship, person-person and new forms of person-nature relationship, in this In the sense León-Portilla indicates (1976) that the notion of ecosis “concerns the internal structuring processes of a group [or community] owners of cultural identity and also their forms of adaptation to the environment in which they live and the use of their resources ”(p.20), in such a way that the notion of ecosis will come to mean -on the one hand-“ the set of transformations that, for its own benefit, a human community carries out when acting on the geographic scope. or in which it has established itself to develop its existence there ”(León-Portilla, 1976: 21), but -on the other- it also happens to signify the set of transformations that a community performs when acting“ on ”another human community.