Middle of nowhere

A place of war memories, commemoration, and aboriginal re-emergence (La Pampa, Argentina)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3918733
AutoresRafael Curtoni (0000-0001-9203-300X, Universidad del Salvador, autor de correspondencia), Axel Lazzari (0000-0001-9977-9920, Columbia University), Marisa Lazzari (0000-0001-8618-6253, Columbia University)
Año2003
Volumen35
Número1
Páginas61-78
Fecha de publicación2003-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0043824032000078081
OpenAlexW2084382722
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas21

This article addresses a particular aspect of Rank lche re-emergence in the context set by policies of recognition and aboriginal identity politics in the province of La Pampa (Argentina). It focuses on the analysis of a memorial recently built in the 'middle of nowhere'. Specifically, it explores relationships between spatial practices, material objects of commemoration, and memories of a war of conquest, attempting to identify different modes of connecting landscape and memory ('landscapes of memory' and 'landscape as memory') and their consequences for the struggles for aboriginal recognition. In a more general sense, the article attempts to show that this landscape is a social space lived and built by the performance of multiple forms of memory, which are shown in the competing spatial practices around material forms of representing and remembering past events. This landscape is in this way a particular work of the art of remembering. Keywords: ArgentinaWarMemoryLandscapeIdentity PoliticsRanküLche

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