Analysis of some iconic strategies in commemoration of the ephemerides of "November 30th" at schools from Misiones, Argentina

Abstract

The school patriotic acts involve different ways of putting in scene memories (social, public). In this article we analyze different semiotic mechanisms that operate within this format as a mnemosemiotic and communicative complex as performative ritual device. We propose an analysis from some iconic strategies in the putting in scene of school events commemorating the ephemerides of November 30 "Misiones flag day" and "Day of the hero missionary Andrés Guacurarí y Artigas" in public primary schools in the province of Misiones, Argentina. In this sense, we analyze three songs recorded during our instance of doctoral fieldwork (2013-2015). We offer some theoretical and methodological tools for reflection and analysis of mechanisms of memory proposed by imagining certain senses and meanings of the historicalpolitical identities that are in constant production and construction in the province of Misiones.