Habitar diversos mundos: el hacer artesanal en la comunalización indígena

Abstract

Handicraft making is a complex phenomenon which involves socio-cultural, historical, productive, technological and artistic dimensions, but also environmental variables. From an ethnographic perspective, the paper exposes the way in which traditional handicraft intercepts the biological and environmental diversity with the sociocultural one, to rethink the concept of sustainability in natural areas where indigenous communities inhabit in Argentina. It exemplifies how the handicraft making moves vital frameworks (native epistemologies and ontologies) which participate in communalization processes in which nature and culture fuse in special ways.