Description du projet
Comprendre le concept du temps dans le patrimoine indigène des Andes
Les efforts des communautés autochtones pour reprendre le contrôle de leur patrimoine archéologique, combinés à la nécessité pour les gestionnaires de projets/sites de protéger les sites archéologiques indigènes, conduisent à la nécessité d’une nouvelle approche des temporalités locales. Le projet TAHL, financé par l’UE, mènera une recherche ethnographique sur le patrimoine indigène des Andes en enquêtant sur le principe quechua de «muyuy». Il se concentrera sur la perception du temps par le biais du monde matériel et de l’utilisation de l’espace à Chinchero, dans la région de Cuzco au Pérou. Le «muyuy» est un principe social et politique qui assure les relations sociales à la campagne. Il organise le travail agricole communautaire et la production en un système de rotation qui attribue périodiquement aux familles des bouts de terrain à entretenir.
Objectif
How can project/site managers consider local categories and ideas of time when conceptualizing, managing, and protecting indigenous archaeological sites in the Andes? At a time when politicians and scholars give increasing importance to local perspectives, few models exist for addressing the conflicting temporalities of Andean indigenous heritage. My project engages this problem by undertaking an ethnographic inquiry into the Quechua category of muyuy with reference to how time is understood through the material world and use of space in the community of Chinchero, in the Cuzco region of Peru. Muyuy is an Andean long-standing, key organising and dynamic principle of socio-political and ritual life that projects social relationships onto the landscape in different forms. Semantically, it is a concept charged with the temporalities of rotation, alternation, and circulation. As customary law and action, muyuy organises communal agricultural work and production by periodically rotating the plots allocated to families for their sustenance, ensuring rights to land. While muyuy has received some previous attention in the literature, my work will examine this idea in the most depth to date. My previous doctoral research on the topic has already laid the foundations for a more thorough and productive study. An emphasis on muyuy and other temporal categories is (relatively) new. By focusing on native temporalities my project intersects current anthropological debates on indigenous landscapes, as well as current indigenous efforts worldwide to regain control over their archaeological heritage.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
28006 Madrid
Espagne