Vernacular earthen architecture presents a series of relevant conservation challenges that involve designing solutions for diferent kinds of alterations and degradations.Other challenges of a social nature simultaneou...Vernacular earthen architecture presents a series of relevant conservation challenges that involve designing solutions for diferent kinds of alterations and degradations.Other challenges of a social nature simultaneously arise and are related,among other factors,to the participation of local communities and the actions of diferent institutional actors.Understanding these phenomena has generally been approached from perspectives that take technical considera‑tions and social dynamics as separate felds.The current global context has resulted in an acceleration of changes in these dynamics,in terms of both techniques and management models,giving rise to the need to develop compre‑hensive conceptual and methodological approaches through which these challenges should be addressed jointly by recombining the technical and the social.This paper will analyse the main problems afecting vernacular architectures in three communities in northern Argentina,where earthen techniques have been very relevant.We will refect on various potentially useful theoretical frameworks,incorporating concepts from the anthropology of technology and methodological approaches from an ethnography of conservation as a way to work with multiple ontologies.展开更多
基金This research was carried out within the framework of a collaboration agree‑ment between the National Scientifc and Technical Research Council,Argen‑tina(CONICET)the Secretariat of Culture of the province of Jujuy.
文摘Vernacular earthen architecture presents a series of relevant conservation challenges that involve designing solutions for diferent kinds of alterations and degradations.Other challenges of a social nature simultaneously arise and are related,among other factors,to the participation of local communities and the actions of diferent institutional actors.Understanding these phenomena has generally been approached from perspectives that take technical considera‑tions and social dynamics as separate felds.The current global context has resulted in an acceleration of changes in these dynamics,in terms of both techniques and management models,giving rise to the need to develop compre‑hensive conceptual and methodological approaches through which these challenges should be addressed jointly by recombining the technical and the social.This paper will analyse the main problems afecting vernacular architectures in three communities in northern Argentina,where earthen techniques have been very relevant.We will refect on various potentially useful theoretical frameworks,incorporating concepts from the anthropology of technology and methodological approaches from an ethnography of conservation as a way to work with multiple ontologies.
