Heritage that makes politics : Production of us-other boundaries and megamining in a town in southern Patagonia
The objective of this article is to reflect on the configuration of heritage as a device through which identities are constructed as differences. In particular, I explore the ways in which it “does politics” by being mobilized in the official production of us/other borders. Recovering ethnographic d...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/13562 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=runa&d=13562_oai |
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| Sumario: | The objective of this article is to reflect on the configuration of heritage as a device through which identities are constructed as differences. In particular, I explore the ways in which it “does politics” by being mobilized in the official production of us/other borders. Recovering ethnographic data from anthropological research carried out in a mining town in southern Argentine Patagonia, I analyze how an archaeological site is built from government policies as a local identity heritage. I argue that this makes it possible for local elites and government agencies to generate a particular sense of belonging that, in turn, underpins the construction of “absent” alterities in relation to the indigenous peoples, and “threatening” in relation to the migrants who arrive to be used in mining activity. |
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