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Telma Chaile (Dir.) — 2025-07-04

Recordando los inicios. Reseña revista Andes, 35 años de continuidad

Sara Emilia Mata — 2025-07-04

“I'm also going to play”:

Gimena Pacheco — 2025-07-04

Sikuri music, associated with the indigenous and Andean universe, has traditionally been considered a masculine practice. In Quebrada de Humahuaca, it has been linked to devotional practices, such as pilgrimages to high sanctuaries or patronal festivities, functioning as the main element of veneration. The sikuri bands that escort the pilgrimages to the Virgin of Punta Corral's Sanctuary were formed in that intersection between music and devotion. Towards the end of the 1990s, among multiple sociocultural, political and economic changes, the first bands composed exclusively of sikuri women emerged. In this way, they not only transcended the socially assigned tasks (family care, organization, preparation of foods and clothing, etc.) but also questioned the regulated field of the “sikurera tradition”. Through an anthropological approach, articulating ethnography and documentary analysis, we will analyze the emergence of female bands, their native perspectives about the role that women assumed, and how musical practice intersects gender, ethnicity and devotional issues.

Historical construction study.

María Soledad Gianfrancisco — 2025-07-04

The Province of Tucumán has a significant number of historic buildings that represent a valuable historical and cultural heritage. Among them, the Foundational Church of Lules stands out, a small architectural complex composed of the church and parish house.

Founded by the priest Zoilo Domínguez in 1851, it was closed by the Archdiocese of Tucumán in 1930. In 1986, it reopened its doors and the Municipality dedicated a great effort to the restoration of the church. However, the parish house remained abandoned and in a state of serious deterioration.

Taking into account the historical, cultural and heritage value of this building, we carried out the first stage of the restoration project, which involved the interpretation of the construction and destructive processes, diagnosis of the pathologies it presents and a proposal for construction solutions, with a view to its recovery and enhancement.

Ritual mound of Pueblo Viejo de Tucute (Puna de Jujuy, Argentina).

María Amalia Zaburlín — 2025-07-04

The mound structures in the Andean area constitute spaces of great symbolic significance, as they have formed part of the landscapes from very ancient times. This paper presents the stratigraphic analysis of a mound located in the Pueblo Viejo de Tucute archaeological site, located in the central sector of the Puna of Jujuy, occupied between the 10th and 15th Centuries AD. The PVT mound combines a series of elements the result of recurring human interventions in the chosen space, leaving traces of meanings from different times in the landscape.

To study the growth and use of this structure, methodologies applied to architectural structures are proposed. Seven strata were identified, from which it was possible to infer at least four stages in the conformation of the structure, where the ritual practices show modifications, although they were carried out redundantly in the same space.

The Unzué:

Luciano Literas — 2025-07-04

This article deals with the general problem of the form and characteristics of land tenure in the Pampas in the context of the organization and consolidation of the Argentine nation-state in the 19th century. The main objective is to identify, reconstruct and analyze the strategies of the brothers Saturnino Enrique, Mariano and Santos Unzué for the acquisition of property in the province of Buenos Aires, within the framework of the laws for the alienation of “public land”. The case study shows the mechanisms and means used by these members of the Porteñan merchant elite to transform money into land ownership by shifting their economic interests to the frontier.

Patricio del Sacramento:

Franco Rainero Frogel — 2025-07-04

In this paper, we aim to examine the life trajectory of the Afro-Argentinian teacher Patricio del Sacramento and his family network, gaining insight into the conditions that favored the social mobility of this Afro-descendant family, whose ancestors were slaves of the Main Church. During the process of social passage, they developed various occupations and strategies of spiritual kinship channeled through sacramental godparenting, establishing significant alliances with patrician neighbors and other African-descended families, which contributed to their newly acquired status.

From this biographical reconfiguration, we explore individual trajectories and, with them, the social dynamics of La Rioja during the 18th and 19th centuries. The imperatives of segregation, discrimination, and marginalization continue to be entrenched in hierarchies based on race, class, and gender. Nevertheless, we observe various mechanisms of agency among racialized individuals, who strive to emerge through the consolidation of Afro-diasporic networks in a markedly pigmentocratic historical-social structure.

Materialities that carry knowledge.

Silvano G. A. Benito Moya — 2025-07-04

Cultural Studies on written culture during the colonial period and its transition have usually been focused on urban central spaces like metropolitan cities. Gradually this has changed in Argentina.

Jujuy has been overlooked, considering that it was a hinge point between Tucuman and Charcas. Its elites were interacting with central cities from Salta and Cordoba as well as La Plata and Potosi. These were regions with a lot of commercial relation to the port of Buenos Aires and the mining area from the Altiplano through the Camino Real.

We have studied wills and post mortem Probate Court records with indiciary and comparative methods to reconstruct the dynamics of a series of private libraries and thus discuss the circulation spaces and book possession. The theoretical knowledge from a time period, particular tastes of the book owners, books (read or not), that with its mere presence were a precondition to analyse the knowledge and prevailing ideas of the times. We should bear in mind that this was a complex context since the Bourbon Reforms and even the May Revolution in 1810 generated new realities and new interpretations.

Environmental complementarity in the north of Mendoza and stability of strategies in high microenvironments CA. 1000 years BP:

Valeria Cortegoso — 2025-07-04

A model of complementary use of high-altitude environments by groups that combined small-scale horticultural production and intensification in plant processing is presented. Between 1100 and 860 cal. years BP, the Blanco River basin hosted synchronous open-air sites in the cordillera (2300 masl), semi-subterranean houses in the intermontane valley of Potrerillos (1350 masl), and shelters in the Precordillera (1600 masl). For this chronology, exceptional paleoenvironmental conditions are recorded in the basin, which are also reflected in demographic and intensification proxies on a broader regional scale. Based on the analysis of grinding artifacts, hunting weapons, and the lithic production system from the best-quality source in the area, proposals are discussed regarding seasonal and complementary strategies for extracting wild and domesticated resources. The results obtained from our studies support the suggested deployment of forms of life that for several centuries intensified the production and processing of subsistence resources.

Indigenous labor after Alfaro's ordinances (Córdoba del Tucumán, 1612-1645)

Suyay Valentina Zárate — 2025-07-04

The article contains a detailed analysis of the indigenous work contracted in Cordoba after the Alfaro Ordinances of 1612 and until its disappearance from the notarial sources in 1645. We reconstruct the main tendencies of this form of work, which implies a voluntary and remunerated relationship that does not depend on the encomienda rights. The problem that underlies the study refers to the role that contracted labor played in the Cordoban economy, and how it is related to the encomienda as the main instrument of appropriation of the indigenous labor in the region. The phenomenon is approached from the sphere of legal labor based on notarial sources, and from the sphere of informality based on the analysis of a visit, contrasting the way in which each was inhabited by the different population groups involved.

The construction of the indigenist policy from the written press in the province of Chaco (Argentina):

María Belen Vallejos — 2025-07-04

In 1956, during the self-proclaimed “Revolución Libertadora”, the Directorate of Native Protection, the organization which centralized indigenist policy in the national level, led to the decentralization of its responsibilities in the provinces. In Chaco, in the same year the Directorate of Aboriginal Affairs was created to channel the provincial indigenist policy. Its functions included: the development of educational projects and the promotion of agricultural, forestry and cattle-breeding work. In this paper we are interested to analyse the institutional history of the aforementioned Directorate of the aboriginal, attesting for its main objectives and fields of action, the geographical and ethnic prioritized groups, its relations with other indigenist actors, and the indigenous agency vis-à-vis the institutional management.

With such objective, we resort to the analysis of the local newspaper El Territorio, the main printed media outlet, and of the longest edition of the province until the late 60s. This source provides a general outlook of the institutional course, and acted as a sounding board of the main interest themes of different social and political sectors associated with indigenous populations of Chaco.

Gayol, Sandra (2023). Una pérdida eterna. La muerte de Eva Perón y la creación de una comunidad emocional peronista, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Buenos Aires, 334 págs.

Lucía Santos Lepera — 2025-07-04

Maturo, Graciela (2024), Ruy Díaz de Guzmán, defensor de la identidad indiana. Una lectura hermenéutica de su Verdadera Historia del Río de la Plata. EUDEBAEdiciones BTU, Buenos Aires, 422 págs.

Sara Emilia Mata — 2025-07-04

Ayrolo, V., Barral, M. E., & Wilde, G. (Eds.). (2023). Catolicismos de la colonia a la república: Nuevas miradas desde el sur (1.ª ed.). Rosario, Argentina: Prohistoria Ediciones. 198 pp.

Serena Liendro — 2025-07-04