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This article reflects on the distance in anthropological research in urban contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina. On the one hand, physical distance has been at the center of the spatiotemporal regulations deployed by various agents to slow down infections and minimize the deleterious effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, while daily life in cities was rapidly transformed, these regulations -as a sign of the symmetry between daily life and anthropological research-made it difficult to make an anthropological approach based on proximity, prolonged stay, and even coresidence during fieldwork of the social experience of the pandemic to understand its differential impacts on urban life. Based on the results obtained in a set of collective explorations during the pandemic, the article reflects on distance as a product of social practices and a field of struggles both in urban life and in anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the context of the constitution of the Argentine State at the end of the 19th century, the military campaigns of border extension were accompanied by an abundant cartographic elaboration of the new spaces and an ethnographic practice of appropriation of the life of the native populations. This resulted in the formation of collections of photographs, skulls, and skeletons, as well as in the exhibition of groups of living natives in museums. This work approaches the symbolic and effective production processes of the nation and its other internal ones. Based on the analysis of documentary photographic records of the so-called Conquest of the Desert, and of a series of photographs produced by the Mapuche organizations themselves during the last decades in times of cultural reaffirmation, we make an attempt to account for the changes in visual representation policies, as well as in how it is interweaved in broader political-cultural disputes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]