Abstract

BONETTI, Carlos. Indians, mestizos and santiagueños: Identity discourses around the Santiago del Estero rural population in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth XX. Trab. soc. [online]. 2015, n.25, pp.281-293. ISSN 1514-6871.

This work aims to investigate the identity discourses that were built around the rural population of the province during the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Browsing around the production of discourses allows us to understand how "what santiagueño is" was outlining in parallel to the construction of otherness. Methodologically we took advantage of the analysis produced by intelligentsia of the nineteenth century, foreign chronicles and school notebooks. This enabled us to understand social and political conditions in wich identity discourse on the santiagueño came up as a collective subject and how it operated in rural areas in relation to the old colonial Indian and mestizo identities. What santiagueño is, we understand, was the product of a hegemonic discourse crossed by the dichotomy of the civilized and barbarian that prevailed in a period when colonial classifications had been eroded.

Keywords : Santiagueño; Indian; Discourses; Identity; Civilization.

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