The Indian Community of Quilmes and the re-significations of the archaeological site as from the reconstruction process

TOLOSA, SANDRA; BETTINA SIDY; MARÍA FLORENCIA BECERRA; LORENA RODRÍGUEZ; MARÍA VICTORIA PIERINI

Exeter

Workshop; Identities as socio-material networks. Past and present configurations in South America and beyond; 2011

College of Humanities, University of Exeter, UK

In this paper we aim to reflect about the role/link that the different materialities associated to the archaeological site called Sacred City of Quilmes play (and have played) in the past and present development of the Indian Community of Quilmes. In particular, we analyse the different transformations in the economical, symbolic, political and daily aspects of the relationship between the local inhabitants and the archaeological site and also with other external agents to the community, beginning with the process of reconstruction of the site in the late 70?s.