Miradas sobre la “ganadería” en el parque nacional lago puelo

Abstract

This article reviews immaterial meanings generated by the National Parks Administration in relation to the livestock that takes place in the Lago Puelo National Park. We chose this National Park because of its proximity to agricultural production areas and because of the depth of identity that livestock farming has in the local population. We seek to observe how, from a dependency whose objective is environmental conservation, territories are configured and affect the valuation of livestock activities in mountain areas. In the analysis we will attend to the different metaphors with which the Patagonian nature has been characterized