Usos del pasado territorial en el proceso de comunalización de los Comechingones del Pueblo de La Toma, Córdoba, Argentina

Abstract

In 2008 a group of Comechingones families proclaimed themselves as inhabitants of the old Pueblo de La Toma and initiated a process of rearticulation in the city of Cordoba. This communalization process caused tensions within the city. Versions about the territorial past and identity- related with historical official invisibilization representations- suspected of the aboriginal authenticity of those groups considered themselves as Comechingones. Within this framework this paper analyzes the role of territorial representations of the past in the context of the struggle over authenticity that has involved the communalization process of Comechingones of the Pueblo de La Toma. The information was obtained from ethnographic work conducted between 2008-2010. It involved participant observation, interviews and analysis of documentary sources.

Keywords

• communalization processes
• uses of the past
• territory
• aboriginal authenticity
• comechingones