Sustainability, cultural heritage, tourism and participation. Guidelines for the management of an indigenous people in Argentina

Abstract

espanolLa sustentabilidad en la provincia de San Luis (Argentina) con eje en la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural ha sido parte de los objetivos de la agenda politica desde comienzos del siglo XXI. En este marco jugaron un papel central las poblaciones indigenas, para las cuales se efectuaron programas de restitucion de tierras y construccion de viviendas con el fin de promover su reactivacion cultural. En este contexto, por medio de un estudio cualitativo, basado en la realizacion de entrevistas, observaciones participantes y relevamiento de fuentes documentales, se analiza el caso de construccion de Pueblo Ranquel, un asentamiento de familias indigenas rankulches, inaugurado en 2009 cuyo surgimiento, orientado a la promocion turistica, fue promovido principalmente desde sectores gubernamentales. El objetivo final de este trabajo es presentar una serie de lineamientos que emergen del analisis del caso y de una reflexion teorico-metodologica sobre la importancia de la participacion de los distintos actores involucrados en las politicas culturales. EnglishSustainability in the province of San Luis (Argentina), centered on the safeguarding of cultural heritage, has been part of the objectives of the political agenda since the beginning of the 21st century. In this framework, the indigenous populations played a central role, for whom land restitution and housing construction programs were carried out in order to promote their cultural reactivation. In this context, through a qualitative study based on conducting interviews, participant observations and a survey of documentary sources, the case of the construction of “Pueblo Ranquel” is analyzed, a settlement of Rankulche indigenous families inaugurated in 2009, whose emergence, aimed at promoting tourism, was promoted mainly by government sectors. The final objective of this work is to present a series of guidelines that emerge from the analysis of the case and from a theoretical-methodological reflection on the importance of the participation of the different actors involved in cultural policies.