Antropología y formación de colecciones: las producciones artesanales del pueblo Chané

Abstract

Anthropology has performed an important role in the constitution of indigenous handcrafts collections in the first half of XX century. This article tries to analyse this process, focalising on chané group. In this way, we consider the interethnical relationships in the context of argentine Nation's consolidation, and their articulation with the theory and the practice of two anthropologist Alfred Métraux and Enrique Pa1avecino— who studied this group and formed important collections of their handcraft productions. Thus we will comprehend the preservation as a space generated by the relationships between National State and indigenous groups, between anthropology and the "otherness".