El registro etnográfico de rituales y festividades vinculadas con el ciclo agrícola en el Valle Calchaquí norte y la memoria del pasado indígena
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The link between past and present has been a topic long debated from different approaches, bringing into play the notions of time, identity and memory in the constructions of meaning that are made around societies and their territories. One of the dimensions from which it is possible to analyze this relationship is agriculture, due to the importance it has for the valley societies, as it occurs in the northern sector of the Calchaquí Valley (Salta, Argentina), the referent of this research. Based on the idea that the importance of tilling the land dates back to pre-Hispanic times, in this work we have proposed to analyze those ritual aspects that go through the contemporary practices of sowing and harvesting, with the intention of helping us to understand the material aspects of the past. For this purpose, the oral record has been related to the material record within a theoretical framework in which the notion of long time and the importance of memory as a device of resistance are emphasized. The conclusions reached allow us to rescue the idea of fertility, defined from the notions of relationality, complementarity and reciprocity, as well as to discuss its validity today as non-hegemonic rationalities that resist through the exercise of memory. ARK CAICYT: https://id.caicyt.gov.ar/ark:/s16688090/mn99hkw4c
Source: Andes
Institution: Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7215001137