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Intimacy and the public sphere. Politics and culture in the Argentinian national space, 1946–55

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2003

Federico Neiburg
Federico Neiburg
Affiliation:
Department of Social Anthropology, Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista s/n, São Cristóvão, 20940–040 Rio de Janeiro, Rj Brazilfnmv@alternex.com.br
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Abstract

This text examines a series of family conflicts, judicial battles and political struggles having as their main stage the city of Salta, situated in the extreme north-west of Argentina. This constellation of events merges with the political chronology of the country: it begins in 1946, the year of Juan Perón's election as president, and ends in 1955, when he was overthrown by a coup d'état. The objective of the text is to analyse the relations between sentiments and actions associated with social spaces of different natures and scales, such as the space of the ‘good families’ of Salta, of the ‘spirit’ of the Argentine north-west, or of the people from Argentina's interior and of those from its centre. By studying the relationships between native conceptions of intimacy and publicity that are at play in this case, the article proposes an outline of a social phenomenology of the social space concerned with the temporal dimension of social life.

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Research Article
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Social Anthropology , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 2003 , pp. 63 - 78
Copyright
© 2003 European Association of Social Anthropologists

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Footnotes

Earlier versions of this text were presented at the Laboratoire de Sciences Sociales, École Normale Superieure (Paris, March 2002), at the University of Chicago (May 2001), in the Universidad de Buenos Aires (November 2000); at the Núcleo de Antropologia da Política (NuAP, Rio de Janeiro, September 2000), at the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES, Buenos Aires, August 2001), at the Universidad Nacional de Salta (Argentina, July 2001), and at the Universidad de San Andrés (Buenos Aires, August 2000). I thank all those who kindly discussed my work on these occasions. I also thank the anonymous reviewers of Social Anthropology for their stimulating comments and criticisms.