Estudios Sociales del NOA

The journal Sustancia in the constitution of philosophical studies in Tucumán

Paula Jimena Sosa — 2023-05-16

The magazine Sustancia —edited between 1939 and 1943— occupies a significant place in the intellectual field of Tucumán, in the period of institutionalization of the Humanities in the province. We will try to show its importance in the constitution of philosophical studies in the local environment. For this reason, we will analyze the social and material conditions of production of the speeches present in the journal, and then address the reception of philosophical ideas present there. This publication articulates two distinct types of receptions: those inherited from the anti–positivist project, and those related to the philosophies of existence, which acquired greater importance during the first Peronism.

Gods, objects and merchandise: archaeology and national states in Peru and Argentina

Alejandro Haber — 2023-05-16

This text is focused on a comparison between the trajectories of formation of Peruvian and Argentinian archaeologies and national states, and its implication for the constitution of diverse collective -majorly political- identities. With that aim, a synthesis of the relationship between the histories of Peruvian and Argentinian archaeologies, both national states, their sociopolitical contexts and the configurations of diversity in both countries is presented. Some of the milestones in both histories are the political organization of the states, the disciplinary institutionalization, the emergence of the first generation of national archaeologists and their relationship with foreign scholars, the appearance of historical and identitarian narratives based on archaeology and, the implementation of mercantile developments related to them. Since all these comparative analyses it seems clear that senses and territorializations of old things and places have undergone a same set of sequential changes, which are featured in this text as the passage from gods to objects, and from these to goods.

Avatars of a museum

Juan Villanueva Criales — 2023-05-16

The paper presents a historical journey on the transformations that gave rise to the institution known as the National Museum, the origin of some of the most important state museums in Bolivia. Museums arise based on relationships among collections, spaces, institutions and persons, within defined social and political contexts. In this sense, seven stages are traversed in the history of this museum: itinerant museums as predecessors; the formation of the Public Museum in 1838, linked to the La Paz Bishopric; a stage linked to the Municipality of La Paz; the creation of a National Museum of Natural History; its consolidation and merger with the municipal museum during liberal times to form the National Museum; his adoption of indigenous/tellurist ideas under the title of Museo Nacional Tihuanacu; and its transition towards nationalism, culminating in its subdivision, in 1961, into various specialized museums to this day. During this history, the development, growth, decrease, fusion and subdivision of collections of various kinds are shown; the location of the museums on the La Paz space is traced, and their relationships with persons, institutions and political-social moments are outlined.

We’re Puneños!

Jimena Cruz Mamani — 2023-05-16

The objective of this research is to carry out a brief description and historical-social analysis of groups that have historically occupied the highlands of the Atacama called the Puna, this is to the east of the Antofagasta Region, Chile. For more than 20 years, the groups known as Puneños have felt homogenized and made invisible in the processes of indigenous recognition by the Chilean State. The puneños have been absorbed into indigenous forms that do not agree with their cultural and organizational tradition. Starting from their own perspective and knowledge, they changed the parameters within the current indigenist policy, and after a long process they achieved state recognition as the Atacameña de la Puna Community.

This work is based on memories and interviews that are collected in a report prepared by the authors at the request of the Puna families with the purpose of presenting a historical, anthropological and legal basis to justify and request their admission as an Atacama community before the Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena (CONADI). The content of this document was a fundamental piece for the recognition of the puneños, since it shows evidence of their experience and details historical processes that have been little recorded until now. This article includes part of the ethnographic and historical information given by Puna families through interviews, visits to the Puna and participant observation in Puno activities and practices during the years 2012-2015. The testimonies and experiences shared by the interviewees are fundamental proofs that demonstrate the validity of the Puna groups as an important component of the Atacameño indigenous people.

Entrevista a Gilles Rivière

Olivia Angé — 2023-07-10

Entrevista a Gilles Rivière