Life history of a collection: the case of the Chasicó Archaeological Museum, Tornquist County (Buenos Aires Province): Life history of a collection: the case of the Chasicó Archaeological Museum, Tornquist County (Buenos Aires Province)
Some of the archaeological collections of important museums of the Argentine Republic have been extensively researched by the scientific community, mainly in relation to their material valuation as evidence of the past occupation of human groups. However, the studies of this type of collections in t...
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Archaeology Department of the School of Anthropology, Faculty of the Humanities and Arts, National University of Rosario
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaanuarioarqueologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/AA/article/view/8 |
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| Sumario: | Some of the archaeological collections of important museums of the Argentine Republic have been extensively researched by the scientific community, mainly in relation to their material valuation as evidence of the past occupation of human groups. However, the studies of this type of collections in the local museums of the Buenos Aires province have been scarcely developed. The collections can be approached as historical archives, because their information on the historiographic contextualization at the moment of their conformation; in this sense, it is not possible to consider the collection without the figure of the subject that shaped it and his agency capacity (i.e. collectors, hobbyists, archaeologists, historians, among others). The main objective of this paper is to analyze the stories about the process of creating the collections of the Archaeological Museum of Chasicó, located in the Estancia Don Natalio, Tornquist district, province of Buenos Aires. It should be noted that this institution has been declared a municipal historical site since 2006, and has an important number of pre-Hispanic and historical paleontological and archaeological pieces corresponding to the human groups that inhabited the southern sector of the Area Ecotonal Húmedo Seca Pampeana. Under this framework, we record the oral memory of the graduate Nora Cinquini, tutor of the the museum´collections as a method. In this way, memory is understood as a form of expression of identity, which allows to consider the construction processes that identify a community and its link with the past. The present work seeks to investigate the usefulness, the academic value and the contributions generated by the historiographic studies in order to know the origin of the museum archaeological collections – and to understand the identity processes that emerge from this type of institution. |
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