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Revista Colombiana de Antropología
Print version ISSN 0486-6525
Abstract
GOMEZ, MARIANA DANIELA. FORMS OF INTERACTION OF TOBA (QOM) WOMEN WITH THE MONTE. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2008, vol.44, n.2, pp.373-408. ISSN 0486-6525.
In this paper I offer an anthropological perspective of Toba women's knowledge related to their gathering activities in the monte (forest) in the Formosa Province of Argentina. I use the concepts of engaged involvement (Ingold), embodiment (Csordas) and habitus (Bourdieu), to analyze women´s knowledge as practical knowledge (Bourdieu), learned through a bodily-perceptual interaction with those places of the Toba territory which women recognize as significant. I discuss the links between identities, women´s monte-related knowledge, and the body as a locus which carries, creates and dynamizes socially embodied knowledge, as a historical product of specific forms of circulation and transmission within a socio-cultural group, marked by gender, age and ethnic differences
Keywords : Toba; women; embodied knowledge; habitus.