La casa de las palabras. Un modelo de biblioteca para comunidades indígenas argentinas
Year: 2004
Type: preprint
Abstract: Latinamerican aboriginal peoples constitute a forty-million population distributed throughout the whole continent. As social minority communities, they suffer common problems of scarcities, discrimination and cultural pressure, which lead them into poverty, healthlessness, illiteracy and loss of identity. By this way, their unique cultures enter in severe processes of disintegration, despite of national programs and laws and international recommendations intended to establish the need of their protection. Library and Information Sciences may collaborate in processes of rescue of autochthonous cultures; preservation of cultural heritage and diversity; recuperation of endangered languages and support to intercultural bilingual education. However, is necessary that the library could change its paradigms and points of view, embrace more committed and humanist postures and generate valid models for these populations. As an initial proposal, this article introduces some ideas and working issues belonging to “Aboriginal Libraries” Project, currently developed by the author in native communities in north-eastern Argentina.
Source: Hispana
Author: Civallero, Edgardo
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W68588043