Recovery of historical memory: the case of Qaralamaxat Qarma ’-Etaxat, its importance in the mothering practices of the Mothers Carers of the Qom Culture of Pampa del Indio.

Abstract

The work communicates the contribution of oral history in the reconstruction of the places or territories ancestrally inhabited by the Qom community of Pampa del Indio and the importance that it acquires for teaching from an intercultural perspective. From an intercultural -philosophical-historical perspective, the oral history workshop methodology used made it easier to work with some action research and hermeneutic analysis strategies. From the registration made by the MCCQ the toponyms or ancestral places have been incorporated into the written history, without losing the oral transmission of their stories in the bilingual Qom-Spanish modality. In this sense, the qom toponyms, preserved by the story, interweave with other stories the fabric of oral history. The “toponymy” or “ancestral places” as the Qom prefer to call them, acquire pedagogical value for the Mother Caretakers of the Qom Culture: The narration of the ancestral places recovers the past and preserves the history of the community. Qaralamaxat Qarma '-Etaxat –Our places, territory and water environments-, represent a process of construction of objective history, in which the activation of memory worked in the reconstruction of the history of the community, from within with its own sources and witnesses.