Abstract

PRIMO, Rosario. Tourism, andean otherness and its locus of dispute, Tilcara, Quebrada de Humahuaca. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2022, vol.15, n.2, pp.145-156. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v15.n2.37186.

Abstract The article addresses the phenomenon of tourism in the city of Tilcara, Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina. Based on an ethnography carried out between 2017 and 2019, it offers a description and analysis of three profiles involved in the configuration of tourism, which are defined in terms of the predominant locus - neither "pure", not "unique"- of agents and agencies: governmental, private and communal locus. The analysis unfolds a relational and symbolic view of tourism, understanding it as a social space of hierarchical intercultural relations, marked by cultural translations and disputes over knowledge, where pre-existing historical alterities are reworked. In this way, the article demonstrates that a series of agents -sometimes confronted, in collaboration or in contradiction, with heterogeneous positions and unequal powers- constitute tourism and configure the frontiers that dispute and define representations about the andean.

Keywords : Tourism; Social space; Andean otherness; Tilcara; Quebrada de Humahuaca.

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