Abstract

CARMAN, María. Los tránsitos de lo tangible a lo intangible, y viceversa: El caso del barrio del Abasto de Buenos Aires. Cuad. Sur, Hist. [online]. 2005, n.34, pp. 103-123. ISSN 1668-7604.

This paper deals with the relationships between the tangible and the intangible, and how these dimensions articulate reciprocally in specific patrimonial objects. In order to do so, the second part of this work analyzes the specific case of "El Abasto" neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires. Intangible patrimony becomes alive in the creations and recreations of concrete individuals and materializes in new monuments and tangible objects. Conversely, we sometimes experience the paradox of a monument which, having physically disappeared, seems to have greater actuality now than when it occupied a place in the real world. In this sense, it becomes fixed with more intensity in the memories, daydreaming, and mental images of those who remember it.

Keywords : Tangible Patrimony; Intangible Patrimony; Symbolic Cartography; Territory; Identity Symbols.