The family with more species was Asteraceae (57) and the most speciose genus was Salvia (10). We report 324 vascular plant species recorded in the plots, plus 17 species collected outside the plots (a total of 341 species, 208 genera and 88 families). Vegetation structure and diversity were described by geomorphological unit and for the oak forest as a whole for canopy (DBH ≥ 2.5 cm) and understory plants. We randomly distributed sixty 100-m2 plots among six geomorphological units: the lava fields of the Chichinautzin, Suchiooc, Otates (upper and lower) and Oclayuca volcanoes, and the El Tepozteco Range. Here we describe the floristic composition, diversity, and structure of the terrestrial component of the oak forests of the El Tepozteco National Park (TNP), Central Mexico, and relate their floristic and structural heterogeneity to the geomorphological complexity of the park. Quercus (oak) is among the most speciose and widespread genera occurring in Mexico paradoxically, the ecological knowledge about Mexican oak forests is meager. Rather, it should play out disqualifi ed forms of interpretations, rescuing the multiple temporalities at work in the world, to blast the continuum of history. This article suggests that anthropology should no longer align itself with modernity and its notion of human progress. While capitalist and national expansions would use violent means to spatially establish themselves by destroying alternative modes of production and body politics, anthropology manipulates time with various devices of sequencing and distancing thereby assigning the conquered into the past. Anthropology too has been responsible for the production and maintenance of the temporal order of modernity.
The employment of the master category of singular modernity encompasses its capacity for unifying all singularities, hence, betraying capitalism’s and nation states’ desire to transform plural histories into a single one.
This article critically observes the modern regime of time that led to the temporalizing of history.
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