To build, to mean, to perpetuate... Places for death, spaces for daily life

Abstract

This work focus on the forms in which early formatives groups that constructed and inhabited the archaeological site Bajo los Cardones -Amaicha del Valle, Department of Tafí del Valle, Tucumán- grave place to death in their social life. We start this analysis from one of the aspects of daily life: the construction of social spaces, emphasizing the places destined for the death and its entailment in the ordering of other social spaces. In this way, on the basis of a space analysis, differential forms of constructing the places for the deads and their possible concerns on social scale are posited. Even so, this differentiation evidences a particular configuration in the role of death unifying social contents of habitus in this sector of Bajo los Cardones.