Saber arqueológico y memorias locales en la Comarca Andina del Paralelo 42°, Patagonia (Argentina)

Abstract

Archaeology was traditionally considered as an authority on the subject of the indigenous way of live in the past. However, and beyond that authority, their explanations are not necessarilly reproduced literally by others. In this article, I analyze the intersection between interpretations of the past prior "Desert Campaign" spreaded by an archaeological team that works in The Comarca Andina del Paralelo 42° -Argentine Patogonia- with that ones that belongs to state agencies and local people. I examine the tensions, agreements and/or changes produced by this interaction. I demonstrate the way in which political-economics processes in Patagonia Argentina, anthropological discourses about that region which dominates our discipline in others periods and interethnics emergent conflicts in the region, affects the variable and complex form of the interpretations around historical period that research and disseminate those archaeologist nowadays.