Un Folklore Vitivinicola: Exploring Relationships between Indigeneity and Coloniality through High-Altitude Viticulture in Northwest Argentina

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Title
Un Folklore Vitivinicola: Exploring Relationships between Indigeneity and Coloniality through High-Altitude Viticulture in Northwest Argentina
Description
Traversing the high-altitude landscapes of Northwest Argentina’s Calchaquí Valleys, Salta’s Ruta del Vino weaves through a palimpsest of indigenous, colonial, and viticultural histories, forming a series of extensive landscapes transformed by centuries of human inhabitation. Despite emerging from parallel histories, the viticulture of the region remains independent
of indigenous precedents, continuing to draw upon processes and methods that emerged with the grapevine at the time of the region’s colonization while ignoring the local community’s spiritual relationships to the landscapes they occupy. These independent landscape practices have resulted in the fragmented territory that exists today, occupied by patches of productive agricultural lands, forests, and a series of disjointed riparian corridors threatened by unprecedented impacts of climate change.

Un Folklore Vitivincola envisions an alternate model through which we can begin decolonizing viticulture, interweaving
mono-cultural vineyards with landscape practices of the region to re-establish greater territorial and social integration.
Creator
Alonso, Rocio
Subject
Argentina
Colonialism
Indigineity
Productive Landscapes
Salta
Viticulture
Agriculture
Landscape architecture
Indigenous studies
Contributor
Berrizbeitia, Anita
Date
2024-05-21T12:05:05Z
2024
2024-05-19
2024
2024-05-21T12:05:05Z
Type
Thesis or Dissertation
text
Format
application/pdf
application/pdf
Identifier
Alonso, Rocio. 2024. Un Folklore Vitivinicola: Exploring Relationships between Indigeneity and Coloniality through High-Altitude Viticulture in Northwest Argentina. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
31298741
https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37378614
Language
en