Abstract

ATALIVA, Víctor; MOLINA, Luciano Rodrigo; GERONIMO, Aldo  and  ZURITA, Ruy Diego. Things and genocidal social practices. A forensic archaeological perspective of materiality from Tucumán (Argentina). Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2023, vol.16, n.2, pp.119-132.  Epub Aug 31, 2023. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v16.n2.40772.

The analysis of genocidal social practices in the province of Tucumán (Argentina) makes it possible to reflect on the relevance of certain things -whether or not directly associated with the victims- to reconstruct their own dynamics and the extermination designed by the perpetrators. From a particular set of things recovered in a forensic intervention, we propose an approach to the historical trajectory of a subway construction from the end of the 19th century transformed, almost a century later, into a massive deposit where victims of forced disappearance from the period between 1975 and 1977 were identified. It is possible to suggest that material culture behaves as diacritical when there are no direct testimonies (because there are no survivors and/or witnesses -or they have not yet testified) or when, due to the consequences of the anthropic and/or natural processes that affected the forensic contexts, it is only possible to approach the traumatic events of the past from things.

Keywords : Forensic archeology; Things; Pozo de Vargas; Tucumán.

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