Trascendiendo la Dicotomí­a en torno a la (In)Materialidad del Patrimonio: Un Acercamiento a Partir de los Conocimientos Ecológicos Locales sobre el Uso de Vegetales

The crisis of modernity has generated a search for alternatives to modern forms of relationship between humans and their environment. It has also generated a series of refl ections on cultural heritage, giving it an increasingly more important to local knowledge. This article presents a work of valorization of the cultural heritage based on cultural familiarization and estrangement. For this were documented and divulged the knowledge associated with the local management of the palm Butia capitata (Southeastern Uruguay), as part of a heritage education program that operated on the basis of experimental archeology. We discuss the need to deconstruct the heritage values that transcend its materiality, by implementing forms of cultural valorization that articulate past with present otherness.