TRACING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND COMPLEXITY THEORY

Studies regarding Complexity have been subsidizing several academic/university spaces, collaborating to relate-integrate knowledge in its researches. For that, in this article, it will be discussed the integrate and the relate knowledge through the Traditional Ecological Knowledge, one of the subjects studied in Ethnoecology, bringing the Complexity approach developed by Edgar Morin, specially, for the discussion. Being aware that there is a great necessity to articulate ecological, scientific and traditional knowledge it is perceived in Complexity - transdisciplinary approach by essence - instruments that strengthen the investigating field of Ethnoscience. The different knowledge regarding reality have been slowly rescued and considered to study and understand ecosystems, contributing to overcome the idea that conventional science is the only capable of solving the problems associated to natural resources management and conservation. It is in this way that Ethnoecology, especially TEK, has been standing as a "new" field to investigate alternative forms of ecological knowledge.