'Levantar los ritmos antiguos'. Memoria y política en contextos de violencia

Abstract

This article is based on two ethnographies, produced in the Argentinean Patagonia, in which the ancestral advice to “rise the ancient rhythms” is a collective matter. Having settled these narratives, this article explains the complex relations between ancestry, territory and leadership as well as the potential of memory projects in the restoration of affective bonds and the refoundation of the political forms of “togetherness” after contexts of massive state violence. In these ideological, epistemic and ontological terms of memory, is possible to understand the political projects of Mapuche peoples as well as how to bring into question the presumptions about modern world´s political theories.