Prácticas territoriales y de resistencia contemporáneas de los pueblos Chuschagasta y Tolombón (Valle de Choromoro, Argentina)

Abstract

This article analyzes the resistance practices of subalternized groups, the Chuschagasta and Tolombón communities-people, which aim at legitimizing their collective life form in the context of territorial conflicts. Specifically, I look into how these groups have reframed practices of sowing, cattle raising and their material culture through ceramic craft. These territorial practices have been historically delegitimized by dominant sectors –land-owning families and the state systembecause they are characterized by a community-collective organization of space and of social-cultural relations, both based on their native-diaguita worldview. The ideas developed in this article are the result of ethnographic research that started in 2015 among these two indigenous diaguita communities-Peoples from the Choromoro Valley (current province of Tucumán, Palabras clave Prácticas territoriales; Resistencias; Pueblo diaguita; Multiculturalismo neoliberal; Conflictos territoriales doi: 10.34096/cas.i52.7469