Memorias que inauguran discusiones políticas: Resistencias Mapuche en la provincia de Chubut

Abstract

In the following work we take two ethnographic situations that happened in the province of Chubut within the framework of our respective doctoral research. We start thinking about memory as a conversation that occurs in the present updating events or beliefs that happened in the past. The objective of this article is to analyze how memory works operate in discursive constructions that include relationships between human and non-human persons. On the one hand, we analyzed the presence of the "sacred fire" during a workshop carried out by indigenous women during the 2018 National Meeting of Women in the city of Trelew. On the other hand, we work the stories about the forces that inhabit the ruins or “taperas” in the Boquete Nahuelpan area. We select some scenes corresponding to the fieldwork of each one of us, to tell why in certain contexts (public or private) the non-human presences (newen, ngen, kutral) are a constitutive element of the discourses of Mapuche people and groups with which we work. This article relates how this type of relationality produces political discourses that question hegemonic narrative.