Abstract
In this paper we are interested in comparing the actions of two state institutions in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, where we found practices that were understood as guardianship. And although they were apparently at the antipodes, given the populations to which they were directed, we could find points of encounter and interpellation. Taking care not to fall into anatomical comparisons or ethnographic universals, we proposed, from an analytical separation, to approach some forms of tutelary management both in the Patronato del Liberado and in the Patrimonial Reserve of the Museum of Anthropology. The distinction between tutelage locating and tutelage documenting allowed us to observe how these actions are inscribed in processes of production and reproduction of knowledge constructed in the daily and intimate work as privileged and legitimized actions of care. Considering also the polyvalence of these similar practices that, in different contexts and with different objectives, are twisted.
Keywords:
tutelage; management; locate; document; ethnography