Whose utopias are we talking about? Inter-cultural heritage management in collaboration with Northwestern Argentina's indigenous communities.

GARCIA AZCÁRATE, JORGELINA; KORSTANJE, MARÍA ALEJANDRA

Horco Molle, Tucumán

Taller; Taller internacional “Identidades como redes socio-materiales: configuraciones pasadas y presentes en Sudamérica y más allá I; 2011

AHRC_research networking_2010 (Marisa Lazzari convener)

Based upon our fifteen years of experience working with the subject of cultural and natural resource management from an inter-cultural perspective, we review the underlying assumptions that have guided our efforts. We present these here as "utopias" for the various groups involved, and discuss these in terms of their scope and limitations. Our own viewpoints are enriched by the fact that we have both worked in a variety of roles within Argentina's heritage management system (as researchers, institutional directors, and resource managers). Our presentation here is also grounded in comparisons we can make among all of the individual cases in which we have been involved, although here we focus in particular on the case of Quilmes, as both authors have had long-term involvement in various stages of activity that have taken place at this well-known archaeological site in northern Argentina.