The past as a lived space: Heritage places, re-emergent aesthetics, and hopeful practices in NW Argentina

• Autores: Lazzari, Marisa; Korstanje, María Alejandra
• Año de publicación: 2013
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Paisaje; Estetica; Identidad
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

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.
Fil: Lazzari, Marisa. University Of Exeter; Reino Unido
Fil: Korstanje, María Alejandra. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Instituto de Arqueología y Museo; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina