Towns and Moral Life: “Town”, “City” and “Country” as Categories of Practice in the Settlements of the District of Punta Indio (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Beyond their usual geographical designations as “towns”, the inhabitants of the settlements on the district of Punta Indio (Buenos Aires, Argentina) refer to them using a set of terms that make part of a widespread discoursive repertoire. In designating their settlements as “town”, “country” or “cit...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/32002 |
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| Sumario: | Beyond their usual geographical designations as “towns”, the inhabitants of the settlements on the district of Punta Indio (Buenos Aires, Argentina) refer to them using a set of terms that make part of a widespread discoursive repertoire. In designating their settlements as “town”, “country” or “city” through recourse to certain positive or negative traits, they position themselves in relation to different moral stances involving either praise or condemnation. In said attributions, certain canonical features associated with the aforementioned terms are selectively incorporated and reconstructed in terms of an apparatus in which description, evaluation and hierarchical ordering become simultaneous and inseparable operations. Through this text we will present the fashions in which residents of said settlements mobilize, utter and argue about these categories, with the goal of portraying the ways in which certain designations that may look as geographical at first sight are in fact used to present under a comparative key certain morphologies, scales and modes of dwelling as a source of experiences and practices more valuable, preferable or desirable than others. |
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