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Abstract

Desde mediados del Siglo XX, los ishir del Gran Chaco han sufrido transformaciones económicas, políticas e ideológicas que derivaron en una substitución de pautas y prácticas de comportamiento y pusieron en disputa el valor y el significado de la cultura en el nuevo contexto. Esta discusión se manifiesta—como en muchos otros casos etnográficos—en una marcada fractura generacional entre padres que vivieron la vida montaraz e hijos cuya crianza citadina los ubica en un umbral lejano a la experiencia del monte y en un contexto interétnico ajeno a los valores y motivaciones culturales de los ancianos. Sobre la base de nuestra labor con los artistas plásticos Ogwa y su hijo Basybüky, abordamos el modo que asume ese disenso de valores a través de las diferencias que mantienen uno y otro en torno al significado de la cultura y el sentido se ser ishir, disputa en la que ambos estilos de narrativas étnicas se entrelazan a la influencia de la labor etnográfica.

For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the Ishir of the Gran Chaco have undergone economic, political and ideological transformations, which have led to substitutions of meanings and behavioral practices, as well as to debates over the value and meaning of Ishir culture in the new and changing context. Such debates about cultural change and continuity seem to correspond, as is often the case to a marked generational gap between parents, who lived in the forest, and children, who do not. The new generation raised in cities, while being distant from forest experiences, have gained new knowledge of interethnic contxts, and forged new values and cultural motivations. On the basis of collaborative ethnographic work realized with the plastic artists Ogwa and Basybüky (father and son) we analyze the specific forms taken by this particular generational value conflict, and examine the various ways in which the father and the son construct through their art what it means to be Ishir, and how best to defend Ishir culture and their indigenous ethnic identity.

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