From the wide variety of papers:
Editors Patricia Ayala and Rafael Pedro Curtoni EPISTEMIC AND ONTOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY IN THE RECOVERY AND RETURN OF ANCESTRAL PEOPLE TO THEIR TERRITORIES
- This article is both a reflection grounded in our own trajectory, experience, and commitment to Indigenous claims for the return of ancestors, and an exploration of the processes of repatriation, restitution, and reburial. We introduce key concepts such as bodies/territories, redignification, depatrimonialization, and other related frameworks to enrich and complicate existing approaches.
Luis Gerardo Franco Arce A COLOMBIAN TRIPTYCH ON REPATRIATION AND DISPLACED OBJECTS. COLONIAL REASON AND POST-COLONIAL DREAMS
- This paper reflects on objects that were exiled from their territories in the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century in Filandia (Quindío), the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Magdalena), and San Agustín (Huila), all departments of Colombia.
- These objects comprise the so-called Quimbaya Treasure exhibited in the Museum of the Americas in Madrid (Spain), the statues of the sculpting people of San Agustín housed in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin (Germany), and two kogui masks that have already been returned.
Ulises Cárdenas, Patricia Ayala, Claudia Ogalde, Benjamín Candia, Leonel Salinas, Romina Yere, Carlos Aguilar, Christian Espíndola and Suyai Cruz RETURN POLICIES AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATION. REFLECTIONS
BASED ON THE ATACAMEÑO LICKANANTAY CASE
- This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on return and repatriation policies, highlighting the central role of Indigenous Peoples in these contexts.
- To this end, it proposes a reflection on how these policies are understood and defined based on a collaborative project aimed at studying the collecting and patrimonialization of Indigenous bodies in the Atacameño Lickanantay territory, in northern Chile.
Benjamin Candia ANDINE BELIEFS ABOUT ANCESTORS, THE CONCEPTS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM AND THE REASON FOR THEIR REPATRIATION. THE CASE OF THE ATACAMEÑO LICKANANTAY PEOPLE
- This paper explores Andean and Atacameño Lickanantay beliefs about their ancestors and death in order to understand the reasons why Atacameño communities seek the repatriation of their artifacts and/or ancestors along with their reburial.
- To this end, it presents a discussion of the concepts and ways of referring to ancestors among different Andean communities, present in ethnohistorical, archaeological, and ethnographic records.
María Inés Canuhé and Rafael Pedro Curtoni DECOLONIAL MEMORIES AND NARRATIVES IN THE ‘RETURN TO THE EARTH’ OF THE RANKÜLCHE ANCESTORS OF CENTRAL ARGENTINA
- In the “return to the land” ceremony or reburial of ancient rankülche ancestors from central Argentina memories, meanings, and narratives emerged in which the distinctions between past and present faded. In addition, meanings, assessments, and practices of the place were intensified within the framework of Indigenous worldviews and what we call “acting cosmographies.”
- The reburial site, called Chapalcó Hill, was characterized as a sacred cemetery. Decisions about how to consider and name the bodies, the method of reburial, the narrative in their own language, and the characterization of the place were proposed by the rankülche.
