¿Por qué el lawen une? Procesos personales y colectivos de recuerdo y subjetivación política.

Abstract

This article presents an anthropological approach on how several political projects and actions are developed, considering their demands as a central role for the analysis of the process of valuing collective memories. These memories are present in the development of a political subject from common experiences of “being in a struggle”. I will address the political process that Mapuche-Tehuelche people militants from urban zones and members of the different communities of the provinces of Río Negro, Neuquén and Chubut, Argentina, start regarding the defense of lawen (ancestral medicine) and their territories between 2017 and 2018. I reconstruct experiences from daily life, discursive reflections and social practices related to the lawen, which reconnect memories with indigenous demand discourses.