Ontocultural and Laocultural Notions in Community Contexts

Approaches from Cultural Management

Authors

  • Juan Carlos Domínguez Domingo Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/cor.a11n21.7526

Keywords:

ontocultura, laocultura, prácticas comunitarias, gestión cultural, políticas culturales., Ontoculture, Laoculture, Community practices, Cultural management, Cultural policies

Abstract

Ontoculture and laoculture are two analytical levels proposed by the Mexican anthropologist Lourdes Arizpe to avoid overlapping the notion of culture when it is used interchangeably to refer both to cultural practices driven by human creativity and to the way in which public action expresses these practices in cultural policies. Meanwhile, the term "community" is increasingly used to define a series of practices surrounding cultural creation and expression in local contexts. This article aims to combine laocultural and ontocultural aspects in the notions of community, providing differentiated analytical tools for cultural management when studying and working with community practices.

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Author Biography

Juan Carlos Domínguez Domingo, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

PhD in Anthropology from UNAM and Master in Public Policy from FLACSO. He is currently a Tenured Researcher at the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research of UNAM, where he works, among other topics, on cultural production processes in film and audiovisual media, cultural and cinematographic policies, as well as processes related to community cultural management. He is a member of the SNII.

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Published

2026-06-29

How to Cite

Domínguez Domingo, J. C. (2026). Ontocultural and Laocultural Notions in Community Contexts: Approaches from Cultural Management. Córima, Revista De Investigación En Gestión Cultural (e-ISSN 2448-7694), 11(21). https://doi.org/10.32870/cor.a11n21.7526