Abstract

MUDRIK, Armando. LUNA E IDENTIDAD ENTRE MIGRANTES EUROPEOS Y SUS DESCENDIENTES EN EL SUR DE LA REGIÓN CHAQUEÑA ARGENTINA. Avá [online]. 2019, n.35, pp.181-212. ISSN 1851-1694.

This is a cultural astronomy study about practices and ideas regarding to the Moon, among European migrants and their descendants, who settled like colonists in the southern area of the Argentinean Chaco. These colonists arrived among waves of immigration occurring in Argentina in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Through the analysis of these astronomical knowledge, it is clear, on the one hand, how the colonists and their descendants have understood the sky in a general way, how they have observed it and the metaphors or models to which they have resorted in different contexts to make sense of astronomical objects and events. Moreover, ideas and practices collected, also tell us about the importance that relations between the different migrants, and relations between migrants and other social groups present in the region addressed, like chaqueños aboriginal groups and criollos, had in the construction of identity and celestial knowledge by the colonists.

Keywords : Colonists; European migrants; Identity; Cultural Astronomy; Argentinian Chaco.