%0 Journal Article
%T Rosas transplantadas y el mito de Eldorado. Traves¨ªas en el tiempo, en el espacio, en la im¨¢gen y en el silencio
%A Elizabeth Jelin
%J Revista del Museo de Antropologia
%D 2009
%I Museo de Antropologia
%X The looking glass is directed towards Eldorado, a virgin subtropical land in Northeastern Argentina, around 1920. I will be following some lines of its history during the following three decades, a history that can be read in terms of bringing ¡°civilization¡±, modernity and progress to an untamed savage land. The basic route was that of European immigration, in part escaping from poverty, conflict and destruction. The ¡°locality¡± and the ¡°local¡± ¨Cin this case as in others¡ªare not what is left over or kept out of the center. Rather, it is part of an interrelated world. The task I propose stems from an attempt to conceptualize the ¡°local¡± not in contrast to the ¡°global¡± or the ¡°macro¡± but rather as a shifted center from which the world can be looked at, a base from which webs of connections with other places, peoples and institutions are made and broken, shaped and reshaped. From this ¡°descentered¡± center, the history of ¡°Europe¡± becomes not a history of place but one of flows and webs --of people or of political and institutional links, of economic interests, of personal and family ties. Personal letters and photographs sent and received, auto- and family biographies and the photo album are the means to explore such flows. There are also the more conventional public documents and printed newspapers. It is also a story of many silences to be uncovered.The case of Eldorado will be used to reflect upon and pose some questions about more general issues in social research: the conceptualization of local-global and center-periphery relationships; the private-public divide; the split we construct between rationality and objectivity on the one hand, and passions and emotions on the other; the ¡°embodied¡± link between academic research, intellectual commitments and the public sphere; perhaps something about chance and choice in asking research questions.
%K Eldorado
%K Misiones
%K local-global
%K Nazism
%K Family
%K immigration
%K investigaci¨®n social reflexiva
%U http://publicaciones.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/106/149