Agriculture and pastoral activities in the North Calchaquí Valley (Salta, Argentina). Explorations around ethnography and materiality
A tradition of anthropological and archaeological work in the mesothermal Andean valleys in Northwestern Argentina usually emphasized agriculture as the dominant productive activity, considering animal husbandry as an accessory practice, mainly limited to family consumption. However, recent studies...
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Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Arqueologia/article/view/10304 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=arqueo&d=10304_oai |
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| Sumario: | A tradition of anthropological and archaeological work in the mesothermal Andean valleys in Northwestern Argentina usually emphasized agriculture as the dominant productive activity, considering animal husbandry as an accessory practice, mainly limited to family consumption. However, recent studies indicate that animal husbandry may have had a greater importance in the configuration of productive strategies in these areas, raising the emerging concept of agropastoralism. This paper aims to explore the different ways in which agricultural activities and those linked to animal husbandry and grazing entangle in the Northern Calchaquí Valley. To this end, we analyze the material aspects associated with these coordinated practices based on ethnographic fieldwork through observations and local oral memory. We consider that this approach will allow us to establish guidelines that will enrich the analysis of the local archaeological record, resulting in a comprehensive view of the complementarity between these practices. Our results provide a first contribution to the approach to agropastoralism in the area, evidenced through the analysis of the materiality, organizational dynamics, and coordinated mobility in the different spaces in which life in the valley takes place. |
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