‘My grandmother who is an elephant is in the sky’. Pperception of the peri-urban space among the Qom of Derqui (Buenos Aires)
Using the analytic category of ‘overcrowded universe’ proposed by Florencia Tola (2012) for the cosmology of indigenous Qom of the Gran Chaco, I aim to demonstrate its validity for the case of migrant and peri-urban Qom of Derqui (Buenos Aires) with whom I work. According to native perspectives, the...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/3883 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=runa&d=3883_oai |
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| Sumario: | Using the analytic category of ‘overcrowded universe’ proposed by Florencia Tola (2012) for the cosmology of indigenous Qom of the Gran Chaco, I aim to demonstrate its validity for the case of migrant and peri-urban Qom of Derqui (Buenos Aires) with whom I work. According to native perspectives, the periphery of the big city is presented as an ‘overcrowded universe’ by various non-human and mythological beings. Specifically, this article aims to analyze our field records in reference to two of them: the elephant of the sky and the anaconda-woman of the aquatic urban depths. More than loss due to migratory displacement, I observe continuities of the cosmology and in the perception of surrounding space. |
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