SPATIALIZATION AND BELONGING IN ANTOFALLA, AN OASIS IN PUNA DE ATACAMA
Abstract
This paper studies the social spacialization processes through which the people of Antofalla produce social space in their sociocultural interaction and the way in which landscape reproduces, mediates and transforms these relations, since it is a social product in which present and past social relations are inscribed. The aim of this study is to understand the rules that assign ownership, acces and use of certain areas to certain social subjects. Thus, we analyze the cultural patterns of ownership
inscribed in the lanscape of Antofalla area, marking their straight relation both with kinship domestic relations and with the appropiation of local resources.
We argue that spatialization processes are, at the same time, domestication process in which the relationship between those who domesticate and those who are domesticated implies certain feeling of identification by the means of which social belonging and differantiation is naturalized. This feeling of belonging articulates resignified social meanings that guide sociocultural interaction related either to people (domestic and supra-domestic kinship social relations) and to landscape (use and appropiation
of natural resources). We also focus on the relation between cultural hegemony and landscape, remarking the way in which cultural patterns of belonging inscribed in landscape are naturalized by common sense.
We analyze the discoursive argumentations produced in interviews contexts and the registers of participant observation of the everyday practices of the people of Antofalla. These data were constructed during the fieldwork realized beteen November 1996 and November 1997.
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