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INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ESTUDIOS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
The past as a lived space: heritage places, re-emergent aesthetics, and hopeful practices in NW Argentina
Autor/es:
LAZZARI, MARISA; KORSTANJE, MARÍA ALEJANDRA
Revista:
Journal of Social Archaeology
Editorial:
Sage
Referencias:
Año: 2012
ISSN:
1469-6053
Resumen:
This article explores
the past as a lived, inhabited reality through a series of examples of indigenous
heritage practices in NW Argentina (NWA), a region that in recent decades has
seen increasing indigenous demands for autonomy as well as for land and
cultural rights. This article seeks to understand the locations where heritage
struggles emerge, as well as the artefacts around which they emerge, as social,
semantic, and physical spaces of ontological multiplicity. Understanding how
such places and artefacts are constituted as lived-in-the-flesh realities today
requires examination of the multiple present connections that make them
possible, as well as inquiry into how the sedimentation of previous lived
experiences contributes to present understandings. This article examines
ancient places that become gravity points, fuelling both indigenous politics
and an academic practice with its own aesthetic code. To varying degrees, the
cases explored reflect our involvement -- as archaeological researchers,
professional advisors, and museum visitors -- with re-emergent indigenous heritage
practices in the region