Los bordes de la memoria y del lawen (medicina ancestral mapuche). Una profundización de los disensos ontológicos, epistémicos e ideológicos en experiencias de lucha y procesos de subjetivación política.

Abstract

This work is an anthropological analysis of the ways in which, when remembering in a group, certain people from Mapuche indigenous communities in Patagonia (Argentina) resignify the shared meanings of territoriality and the idea of the Mapuche people. Practices of memory, inseparable from practices of conversation, production of knowledge and activation of relationalities, which I describe on the pages of this work, begin to transform into common stories from a Mapuche movement, which made public the defense of the exercise of an ancient inter cordilleran medicine (between Argentina and Chile) called lawen. Argentinean National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality appears on the scene of conflict due to the habitual practice of seizing the lawen at border crossings, being this scenario a "visibility peak" of previous trajectories of struggle, and the beginning of political subjectivation processes. From this angle, the conflict escalated through disagreements that are simultaneously ideological, epistemic and ontological, which invites us to understand dissent not as juxtaposed or opposed visions, but as a recreation that arises from the edges between practices, expressions and differentiated ways of structuring the world.