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In certain historical contexts, and as a result of social interactions and shared experiences of struggle, people can recognize certain absences in our knowledge of the past as social forgetfulness. The particularity of these is political recognition and emotional as constituent parts of a common historical pattern. In this sense, the paper explores the ways in which the "forgetfulness" and rests one hand, replenish their meanings from the past and, on the other hand, operate in the processes of subjectivation of whom are recognized as part of Mapuche people. We start from the idea that forgetting is less contrary face memory that a particular form of remembering certain experiences and past events when they were absent at the time of recognition. Hegemonic forms of framing the relationship between memory and forgetting indigenous subjectivities involved in, however, the ways in which people coexists with their own forgetfulness, the ways in which change that relationship, and the implications they have on their own lives show that an "ethnography of forgetfulness and silence" is essential to understand the processes that are reconstructed sense of belonging and becoming in social groups that have been alterizados subalternized and throughout history. We propose, then, a theoretical and methodological reflection around an ethnography of the practices of memory and forgetting from different histories of families Mapuche and Mapuche Tehuelche in Patagonia, Argentina. In this paper we propose to share the questions, challenges identified and some of the ways in which we rephrase our previous assumptions about the effects of forgetting and forgetfulness recognize, from our own experiences of fieldwork.

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