In Transit Cartographies: Oral Maps and Social Memory in El Cajón (Catamarca, Argentina)
<p>In this work I present and explore the way in which space expresses milestones of social memory among inhabitants of El Cajón, Catamarca, Argentina, resulting in a highly dynamic product rather than an immutable plane. Particularly, I analyze how local cartographic imagination is conveyed t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Buenos Aires
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Runa |
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| Online Access: | http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/605 |
| Summary: | <p>In this work I present and explore the way in which space expresses milestones of social memory among inhabitants of El Cajón, Catamarca, Argentina, resulting in a highly dynamic product rather than an immutable plane. Particularly, I analyze how local cartographic imagination is conveyed through true oral maps in which the territory condenses notions regarding history, geography, myths and cultural practices. The inquiry, triggered as a consequence of ethnographic attempts to make a map with local dwellers, attempts to examine the way in which memory unfolds in the territory, as well as to reflect on the methodological reformulations that the cartographic co-construction process entailed.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 0325-1217 1851-9628 |