Chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger Essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from Huarpe communities in the department of Lavalle, NE in the province of Mendoza (Argentina)

The work manifests a first theoretical discussion framed in further research still in the process of healing knowledge and practices associated with plants in the region of “Guanacache” (northeast of Mendoza, Arg.), settlers from the 1990s came to personify a collective subject huarpe, with apprecia...

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spelling I10-R10-article-162702022-08-24T16:06:22Z Chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger Essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from Huarpe communities in the department of Lavalle, NE in the province of Mendoza (Argentina) Chañarales: espacios simbólicos de cura y peligro Ensayo realizado sobre notas etnográficas con campesinos de comunidades huarpes en el departamento de Lavalle, al NE de la provincia de Mendoza (Argentina) Besio, Laura Guanacache bosque de chañar ambiente plantas curativas magia y ritual Guanacache chañar forest environment healing plants magic and ritual The work manifests a first theoretical discussion framed in further research still in the process of healing knowledge and practices associated with plants in the region of “Guanacache” (northeast of Mendoza, Arg.), settlers from the 1990s came to personify a collective subject huarpe, with appreciation links biological, cultural and social continuity with the past indigenous populations. Under the assumption that the practices and transmitted knowledge involving the use of plants could not be referring only to natural elements formally ordered outside the social sense to give meaning and context, I propose from an ethnographic look to build the historical and contextual character acquire chañarales (native forests consist mainly of chañar: medicinal species botanically defined as Geoffroea decorticans) while tissue spaces of sociability in various ritual celebrations that take place: initiation of young people in the field, prosperity of future harvests, healing word to disease of plants and animals, among others. My focus of study are healing plants and by employing ontological theories hybrid society nature that try to explain the relational ways that chañarales would be called by the local people as areas of spiritual strength and material for the cure that synchronize alliances between past worlds and simultaneously present. El trabajo manifiesta una discusión teórica enmarcada en una investigación mayor aún en proceso sobre saberes y prácticas de cura asociadas a plantas en la región de “Guanacache” (noreste de Mendoza, Arg.). Pobladores que desde la década de 1990 pasaron a personificar un sujeto colectivo huarpe, con reconocimiento de vínculos de continuidad biológica, cultural y social con poblaciones indígenas del pasado. Bajo el supuesto de que las prácticas y saberes trasmitidos que implican el uso de plantas podrían no estar refiriéndose sólo a elementos naturales formalmente ordenados por fuera del sentido social al que dan sentido y contexto, propongo desde una mirada etnográfica construir el carácter histórico y contextual que adquieren los chañarales (bosques nativos de chañar: especie medicinal botánicamente definida como Geoffroea decorticans) en tanto espacios tejidos de sociabilidad en el que transcurren variadas celebraciones rituales: de iniciación de jóvenes en el campo, prosperidad de cosechas futuras, curación de palabra para plantas y animales enfermos, entre otros. Intentaré explicar las formas relacionales en que los chañarales están siendo convocados por la gente local como ámbitos de resistencia espiritual y material para la cura que sincronizan alianzas entre mundos pasados y a la vez presentes. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología 2017-06-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer reviewed article Artículo revisado por pares etnografía Artigo revisado por pares application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/16270 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol 10 (2017) NÚMERO 1; 105-116 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol 10 (2017) NÚMERO 1; 105-116 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol 10 (2017) NÚMERO 1; 105-116 1852-4826 1852-060X 10.31048/1852.4826.v10.n1 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/16270/17115 Derechos de autor 2017 Laura Besio
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topic Guanacache
bosque de chañar
ambiente
plantas curativas
magia y ritual
Guanacache
chañar forest
environment
healing plants
magic and ritual
spellingShingle Guanacache
bosque de chañar
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plantas curativas
magia y ritual
Guanacache
chañar forest
environment
healing plants
magic and ritual
Besio, Laura
Chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger Essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from Huarpe communities in the department of Lavalle, NE in the province of Mendoza (Argentina)
topic_facet Guanacache
bosque de chañar
ambiente
plantas curativas
magia y ritual
Guanacache
chañar forest
environment
healing plants
magic and ritual
author Besio, Laura
author_facet Besio, Laura
author_sort Besio, Laura
title Chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger Essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from Huarpe communities in the department of Lavalle, NE in the province of Mendoza (Argentina)
title_short Chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger Essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from Huarpe communities in the department of Lavalle, NE in the province of Mendoza (Argentina)
title_full Chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger Essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from Huarpe communities in the department of Lavalle, NE in the province of Mendoza (Argentina)
title_fullStr Chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger Essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from Huarpe communities in the department of Lavalle, NE in the province of Mendoza (Argentina)
title_full_unstemmed Chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger Essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from Huarpe communities in the department of Lavalle, NE in the province of Mendoza (Argentina)
title_sort chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from huarpe communities in the department of lavalle, ne in the province of mendoza (argentina)
description The work manifests a first theoretical discussion framed in further research still in the process of healing knowledge and practices associated with plants in the region of “Guanacache” (northeast of Mendoza, Arg.), settlers from the 1990s came to personify a collective subject huarpe, with appreciation links biological, cultural and social continuity with the past indigenous populations. Under the assumption that the practices and transmitted knowledge involving the use of plants could not be referring only to natural elements formally ordered outside the social sense to give meaning and context, I propose from an ethnographic look to build the historical and contextual character acquire chañarales (native forests consist mainly of chañar: medicinal species botanically defined as Geoffroea decorticans) while tissue spaces of sociability in various ritual celebrations that take place: initiation of young people in the field, prosperity of future harvests, healing word to disease of plants and animals, among others. My focus of study are healing plants and by employing ontological theories hybrid society nature that try to explain the relational ways that chañarales would be called by the local people as areas of spiritual strength and material for the cure that synchronize alliances between past worlds and simultaneously present.
publisher Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
publishDate 2017
url https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/16270
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