Mitos y contramitos de aridez: imaginarios geográficos y agua en Catamarca, Argentina

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10/2022
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Universidad de Guadalajara
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Este artículo presentará un análisis de las relaciones con la aridez en la provincia de Catamarca (Argentina) durante los siglos XIX y XX, en perspectiva histórica y antropológica. La categoría aridez operará como condensador de una serie más amplia de descriptores, entre ellos abandono, pobreza, atraso, incultura, sequía, desidia, miseria. Mediante un rastreo documental, intentaremos demostrar que estos descriptores se consolidan como características espaciales “evidentes” entre 1870 y 1920, diagnosticadas repetidamente por los contemporáneos y entendidas por ellos como una fatalidad que pesa sobre la provincia. Este proceso se vincula estrechamente a prácticas e imaginaciones territoriales movilizadas por los actores asociados a versiones locales de modernidad. En este marco, Catamarca será crecientemente vinculada al desierto, pero no al patagónico (conquistable) sino a otros desertus “inviables”, abandonados de la civilización y de la naturaleza, in-cultos. Sostendremos que este conjunto de categorías, articuladas y consolidadas en el tiempo, constituyen un imaginario geográfico y revisten las características de un mito: una narrativa con la potencia para organizar tiempo, espacio, prácticas y subjetividades.
This article analyzes the relationships with aridity Catamarca province (Argentina) during the 19th and, 20th centuries, from a historical and anthropological perspective. Aridity will operate as a category condensing a broader series of descriptors, including abandonment, poverty, backwardness, lack of culture, drought, laziness, misery. Through documentary research, we will try to demonstrate that these descriptors are consolidated as “obvious” spatial characteristics between 1870 and 1920, repeatedly diagnosed by contemporaries and understood by them as a fatality that weighs on the province. This process is closely linked to territorial practices and imaginations mobilized by actors associated with local versions of modernity. In this framework, Catamarca will be increasingly linked to desert, not the Patagonian (conquerable) but to other “unviable” desertus, abandoned by civilization and nature, un-cultivated (in-cultus). We will argue that this set of categories, articulated and consolidated over time, constitute a geographical imaginary and have the characteristics of a myth: a narrative with the power to organize time, space, practices and subjectivities.
This article analyzes the relationships with aridity Catamarca province (Argentina) during the 19th and, 20th centuries, from a historical and anthropological perspective. Aridity will operate as a category condensing a broader series of descriptors, including abandonment, poverty, backwardness, lack of culture, drought, laziness, misery. Through documentary research, we will try to demonstrate that these descriptors are consolidated as “obvious” spatial characteristics between 1870 and 1920, repeatedly diagnosed by contemporaries and understood by them as a fatality that weighs on the province. This process is closely linked to territorial practices and imaginations mobilized by actors associated with local versions of modernity. In this framework, Catamarca will be increasingly linked to desert, not the Patagonian (conquerable) but to other “unviable” desertus, abandoned by civilization and nature, un-cultivated (in-cultus). We will argue that this set of categories, articulated and consolidated over time, constitute a geographical imaginary and have the characteristics of a myth: a narrative with the power to organize time, space, practices and subjectivities.
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