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Indigenous Argentine Foodways

Ethnolinguistic

⚠ NOT EXTINCT AND NOT MARGINAL. Argentina recognises more than thirty Indigenous peoples, and the national narrative of a "European country" has historically obscured them — which is itself part of the food record. MAPUCHE in Neuquén, Río Negro and Chubut; QOM, WICHÍ, MOQOIT and PILAGÁ in the Chaco, with a foodway built on algarrobo, chañar, mistol, honey, fish and hunting; GUARANÍ in the Litoral; KOLLA, DIAGUITA and ATACAMA in the Andes; HUARPE in Cuyo; and the Tehuelche, Selk’nam and Yagán of the far south, whose peoples suffered documented genocide in the nineteenth century. ⚠ Rows here carry no sacred material and no community locations.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Mapuche community documented
  • Qom community documented
  • Wichí community documented
  • Kolla community documented
  • Guaraní community documented

Languages: Mapudungun, Guarani, Toba, Selk'nam

What is recorded

  • Argentina recognises more than thirty Indigenous peoples whose foodways are living systems. The national narrative of a European country has historically obscured that presence, which is itself part of the record. Rows carrying Indigenous knowledge exclude sacred material and community locations. documented

Related foodways

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Recipes

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