Vegetales siempre sembrados: relaciones humanovegetales con impronta wichí en Misión Nueva Pompeya y El Sauzalito, Chaco, Argentina

Myriam Fernanda Perret

doi:10.18441/ind.v39i1.225-240

Vegetables Always Planted: Human-Plant Relationships with Wichí Imprint in Misión Nueva Pompeya and El Sauzalito, Chaco, Argentina

Authors

Myriam Fernanda Perret Secretaría de Investigación y Postgrado de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM) y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8896-6795

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v39i1.225-240

Keywords:

farming, gathering, Wichí people, Franciscans, carob, corn, Chaco, Argentina, 20th-21st centuries

Abstract

With a view to analyzing relationships between humans and plants, we follow here the corn and carob in agriculture and gathering practices. The first, promoted by Franciscans in the early 1900s at Mission Nueva Pompeya, and the second, presented by women from the Wichí people of El Sauzalito and Mission Nueva Pompeya in November 2019. This study contributes to the multispecies approach, on the one hand, by making visible networks of humans and non-humans present in the practices analyzed, discovering environments that are not a homogeneous and static background as a theatrical setting. On the other hand, by destabilizing the human hierarchy in plant reproduction, lighting up multiple elements, for example, rain, earth, wind, birds, non-human owners and shadow, which contribute to its existence.

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Published

2022-06-30

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Vol. 39 No. 1 (2022)

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