Urdiendo experiencias entre comunidades diaguitas de la puna catamarqueña y el Museo Integral de la Reserva de Biosfera de Laguna Blanca

We test the concept of museum fact understood as a minimum unit of museological meaning that would allow the representation of an event or set of events displayed through devices originating in museological praxis, converted into instruments or supports of memory. We propose a series of experiences of accompanying subalternized populations that go through processes of ethnogenesis framed in the possibilities of social museology based on the Integral Museum of the Laguna Blanca Biosphere Reserve. We undertake a meta-reflexive exercise that allows us to focus on the contextualization of our museological praxis, for which we describe the background and conditions that were influencing the process of transformation of subjects who until recently recognized themselves exclusively under a peasant identity. We present the conspicuous components of the Integral Museum insofar as part of the museological actions are based on these permanent resources, and at the same time, we validate the notion of community space which enables us to give meaning to other types of actions whose representation is sustained by their “ephemeral” character. In this regard, we present some of these museological actions carried out in support of the calendar of commemorations and celebrations of the Union of Peoples of the Diaguita Nation of Belén, insofar as they constitute rituals of intensification. We also present another series of museological actions that are articulated with the definition of objectives of the indigenous populations (e.g. activities within the framework of a diploma, territorial surveys, etc.).