Los usos politicos de la memoria y la identidad.
Keywords:
memoria e identidades, mito e historia en las comunidades andinas, hegemonía cultural bajo los Estados nacionales, memory and identities, myth and history in an Andean community, cultural hegemony under the nation State.Abstract
Este artículo trata de relacionar las formas del recordar, con el campo de la política a través de la emergencia de identidades étnicas. La memoria, como narración del pasado -fragmentos narrativos-, es un campo de abundantes disputas, cuando se dirimen identidades nacionales o étnicas. Se demuestra por medio del caso tratado que las conmemoraciones resultan escenarios propicios para que las biografías particulares y la acción de rememorar de los sujetos se inscriban en una memoria oficial o colectiva de un conjunto de personas. Esas celebraciones son cronotópicas, pues además de rememorar ensalzando aspectos significativos del pasado para los participantes, intentan determinar el futuro en el presente de las mismas, esculpiendo el devenir en las expresiones simbólicas de los rituales conmemorativos. Pero además, la memoria está relacionada a un territorio y a sus reclamos
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This article aims to establish the relationship between different ways of remembering and the politic arena, through the study of the emergence of ethnic identities. As a narration of the past, as narrative fragments, memory is a field of many struggles when national or ethnic identities are involved. The case study presented here shows how commemorations are propitious scenarios for inscribing individual biographies and personal memories into official ones, or in those collectively constructed by a group. Such memorials are chrono-topical because, along with enabling memory through the celebration of significant aspects of the participants past, they attempt to shape their future in the present, directing the flow of events by means of symbolic expressions in commemorative rituals. Memory, moreover, relates to a territory and its underlying claims
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