SYMBOLS IN ACCION. IDENTITY AND CULTURAL PATRIMONY. THE CASE OF TAFÍ DEL VALLE DEPARTMENT TUCUMÁN-ARGENTINA

Abstract

The concept of Cultural Patrimony was conceived like a state tool for the cultural management (Endere, 2000). This implies that the state institution monopolizes the rights on the totality of the cultural goods that consider representative. Like tool of the state symbolic system, the selection of an object inside a potentially ample listing, implies an intellectual operation that it sets out to hegemonizar the identitario speech (Prats, 2004).
This way, the objects elevated to the category of cultural patrimony synthesize a identitario project, that puts into play all the institutions of the state with the purpose of carrying out an unavoidable process of integration with the intention to homogenize the population in a national culture.
In this work we set out to analyze the process that goes patrimonially from the selection of the element activated to its inclusion in the symbolic system that grants sense. How selects an object? What relation has the political selection with the social recognition? How grants meaning to the activated object? For whom this directed the patrimonialista speech?
In order to carry out our objectives we will be centered in the analysis of the carried out activations in the department of Tafí of the Valley province of Tucumán, between which they are, the park of menhires, the reconstruction of the ruins of Quilmes and the creation of the museum of the Band.