Abstract

NOEL, Gabriel D.. Towns and moral life. “Town”, “city” and “country” as categories of practice in the settlements of the district of Punta Indio (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.1, pp.173-184. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v14.n1.32002.

Abstract Beyond their usual geographical designations as “towns”, the inhabitants of the settlements i n the district of Punta Indio (Buenos Aires, Argentina) refer to them using a set of terms that form part of a widespread discursive repertoire. In naming their settlements as “town”, “country” or “city” through certain positive or negative traits, they position themselves in relation to different moral stances involving either praise or condemnation. In said attributions, certain canonical features associated with the aforementioned terms are selectively incorporated and reconstructed in terms of an apparatus in which description, evaluation and hierarchical ordering become simultaneous and inseparable operations. Through this text we will present the fashions in which residents of said settlements mobilize, utter and argue about these categories, with the goal of portraying the ways in which certain designations that may look as geographical at first sight are, in fact/indeed, [commas] used to present, under a comparative key, [commas] certain morphologies, scales and modes of dwelling as sources of experiences and practices more valuable, preferable or desirable than others.

Keywords : Towns; Moralities; Identity Repertoires; Country; City.

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