El Camino del Zaque: Márgenes de la historia, umbrales de la memoria

Abstract

This report gives an account of a research creation that aims to establish a system that links and instigate tensions between territory, memoirs and historical representation in Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia. The approach arises from the need to promote a different view of cultural heritage elements, to review its current relationship with the narratives that define them and, especially, to inquire about the constitution of memory of this city that has pre-Hispanic origin. Methodologically, the process has combined an ethnography of the territory with an ethnography of the archives, through a thought from the arts, that dialectically relates the knowledge of the communities with the documented references; The work with the community appeals to the philosophical anthropology of Rodolfo Kusch and his localized knowledge and feeling, in order to privilege the sense of a memory that clashes with the established story of history. Through a disassembly and assembly, according to the methodological proposal of W. Benjamin, El Camino del Zaque is presented as a synthesis that claims representation of memory manifested in a rooted idea of a cultural heritage.