1. Universidad del Monte: reproducción social wichí y derechos indígenas.
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BOFFA, Natalia
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STRUGGLE , *INDIGENOUS rights , *HUMAN territoriality , *EVERYDAY life , *INDIGENOUS peoples , *EDUCATION , *ETHNOLOGY , *ORGANIZATION , *SOCIAL reproduction , *NEIGHBORS - Abstract
Between 2011 and 2022, the Universidad del Monte (a Wichí community and organisation neighbouring Misión Chaqueña, Salta, Argentina) has developed a series of activities that attempt to recover and reproduce Wichí ways of life, as part of their indigenous rights. In this study, I propose to reflect on the strategies of Wichí social reproduction and, in relation to this, the meanings that the rights recognised by international organisations and the State (in this case, Argentinean and Salta) take on in everyday Wichí life in the Chaco-Salta territory. The ethnographic work carried out throughout the research allowed us to explore and learn about different Wichí organisational processes, of which the Universidad del Monte is only one, but which we consider to be a fundamental node for reflecting on the meanings of their socio-territorial struggles in relation to the meaning attributed to indigenous rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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