New words for old skies: recent forms of cosmological discourse among aboriginal people ofthe Argentinean Chaco

ALEJANDRO MARTÍN LÓPEZ

Lima

Congreso; Oxford IX International Symposium On Archaeoastronomy (International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 278); 2011

International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture e International Astronomical Union

In this paper we discuss the contemporary production of cosmological discourses, especially the ones about celestial space, in the aboriginal Toba and Mocoví communities from the Argentinean Chaco. Nowadays, cosmology remains essential for Tobas and Mocovíes. However, we will show the importance of the emergence of new producers of cosmological discourses related to new actors in the struggle over leadership. Also, we will take into account the present contexts of discourse, the new interlocutors and communication technologies. Our goal is to understand these cosmological words in the context of the complex relations of structural subordination of these groups to the National Society. Páginas 74-83.