Percepción del espacio y apropiación del territorio entre los aymara de Isluga

an ethnological and geographical perspective helps this paper study a few principles of spatial perception and of the social appropriation of territory, in this case the village of isluga, from where our scale of observation concentrated on the experience of different social actors. this study aims to show the implications -both practical and intellectual- of the social production of locality, through the exploration of: 1) the reconstruction of the place; 2) the ontological devices constituting the landscape; 3) the problem of the center; and 4) the social morphology. considering the different scales of territorial appropriation involved, the paper finally reflects upon the way isluga inhabitants construct their social geography.