"Para que el winka sepa que este territorio lo llamamos de otra forma": producción de memorias y experiencias de territorio entre los mapuche de Norpatagonia

Abstract

This work approaches the relation among memory and territory. We study space practices of Mapuche groups in Norpatagonia in contexts of subordination, looking to illuminate the senses that there acquire. The need to define territory and traditional occupation to apply a public policy allowed to measure the importance of the frames of Mapuche interpretation on the breaks and continuities between present and past. In these frames, the territory explains from restoring notions of "speaking well" (a communication anchored in the reciprocity among the persons and with the environment) and of "movement" ("in opened fields"). Bearing in mind the local uses of these notions, we propose to show how a shared experience of the territory is produced by “rising the ancient word” as well as remembering their ancestors’ “journey”.