Espacialidades pastoriles en las tierras altoandinas. Asentamientos y movilidades en Susques, puna de Atacama (Jujuy, Argentina)

Abstract

Pastoral practices in the highlands of the Andes constitute a production strategy and a lifestyle involving a particular conception, perception and experience of space. Starting with the case of Susques in the Puna de Atacama (Jujuy Province, Argentina), we will analyse how, in a mountain environment, through intense seasonal mobility and a system of scattered settlements, shepherds are appropriating their domestic pasture territories. In turn, we propose that the mobilities are linked both to the use of strategic resources for animal breeding, in a mountain environment, and to the symbolic control of places of great importance for domestic groups. Throughout the text, we will work with the material which emerged from the fieldwork that we have been developing in the area since 2004