Abstract

MAILHE, Alejandra. A Confinement in the Confines: Ricardo Roja's Archipiélago as an Americaniation of the Inland. Trab. soc. [online]. 2019, n.33, pp.1-20. ISSN 1514-6871.

This paper explores an imaginary representation of the “Inland”, as is deployed by Ricardo Rojas in his essay Archipiélago (1934), in order to think Tierra del Fuego as a border area, riddled with temporalities and cultural substrates in conflict with each other. Rojas transforms this region in a space, which is saturated with socio-cultural connotations which are linked to past and present. Besides Rojas elevates this region to a sinécdoque of the inland of the totality of the country and even to a model of the American dimension of Argentina, which is blocked by other social discourses. The

paper also reflects about the esoteric experience of the “initiatory joumey” which is implicit in Roja’s essay, which is attuned to the imaginary representation of the journey in other author’s essays, which are linked to the Antipositivism and the Reforma Universitaria, as in the case of José Vasconcelos. The paper also reflects on the esoteric experience of the “initiatory journey,” which is implicit in Rojas’s essay, attuned with the imaginary representation of the journey in other authors’ essays linked to antipositivism and the Reforma Universitaria, as in the case of José Vasconcelos. Besides, this text contrasts the idealization of the “lost” indigenous world, in Archipiélago, with the vision deployed by other authors such as José Imbelloni, which are central in the consolidation of the scientific anthropology in Argentina.

Keywords : Ricardo Rojas; Archipiélago; Tierra del Fuego; Indigenism; José Vasconcelos; José Imbelloni.

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