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Adopting the proposal of Lindholm y Ekblom (2019), in reference to the elements that constitute biocultural heritage, this research made a comprehensive analysis of each of these elements: ecosystem memory, landscape memories, and place-based memories, which are combined to generate the integrated landscape analysis. In this way, the mannature relationship is deepened in several senses: the riverside inhabitants of Lake Chapala before it dries up, their interactions with their immediate natural environment, as well as some social tensions due to the presence of other human groups as landowners, settlers and businessmen who decide to appropriate the lake from a commercial, capitalist perspective, as well as romanticize and even discriminate against its original inhabitants due to conflicting visions in their relationship and interaction with Lake Chapala. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The home garden is an agroecosystem with traditional roots, in which a family nucleus lives and where the processes of selection, domestication, diversification and conservation are oriented to the production of flora and fauna that have a close relationship with the preservation, social conditions, economic and cultural aspects of the family, (Mariaca et al. 2012). In this research, the conjunction between the traditional knowledge of family gardens in the States of Oaxaca and Michoacán is made, from the Monte Carlo method and the ethnoecological triad: Kosmos, Corpus, and Praxis (K-C-P) to explain the relationship of human groups on their environment. The objective was to compile a list of plant and animal species in common to carry out a comparative analysis of their main uses and reflect on the relationship between traditional knowledge and the existence of these species in family gardens. The results show the existence in common of 19 species of plants and two of animals, whose main uses are medicinal, ornamental and self-consumption. Finally, it is affirmed that in both sites the forms of use and preferences for the maintenance of plants and animals are being transformed, with a high tendency to being an ornamental garden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Patzcuaro tianguis is analyzed from the multidisciplinary perspective of Social Metabolism, with emphasis in circulation and consumption phases. This is from the pre-Columbian era to the present time. The purpose is to know its changes and permanence and the possible factors that influence it to continue existing. Methodology: Based on information from region's historical archive, bibliographic review, interviews with market participants, as well as recent participant observation, the five phases of the proposal of social metabolism are addressed. Results: The market has offered a diversity of goods and 99% of the assistants make barter under customary rules, where corn is the most requested product. The supply of products had been changed by many factors, including continuous socio-cultural change, availability but elements of a food culture that are part of their identity and needs remain. Limitations and conclusions: From the emergence of this market to its present condition, the dynamics and economic forms that include from the appropriation and transformation of natural resources, as well as the forms of circulation and consumption, could be considered traditional and small scale, scarce use of machinery and capital, and predominance of own workforce. The exchange through barter takes place in a context of solidarity economy that has repercussions on the survival of the market. It is evident the need to generate research that deepens the information of the rest of the phases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]