Abstract

VILLAGRAN, Andrea  and  VAZQUEZ, Estela. Trying out a/another reagind of historical accounts: Salta. Beginning of the XXTH Century. Andes [online]. 2010, vol.21, n.2, pp.295-317. ISSN 1668-8090.

This paper intends a reflection on the forms in which the past is constructed from some particular historical accounts. Who narrates and from where these narrations take place ? What values and forms of classification are reflected, and at the same time, make this narrative? These are, among others, the questions which articulate this work. Through the selection of some paradigmatic texts created by writers from Salta, like Las tradiciones historicas by Bernardo Frías and La historia que he vivido by Carlos Ibarguren, this paper intends to develop an anthropological approach to the network of social relationships that shape the context in which these texts were written. It considers the complex relations between Politics and Culture inquiring into the production and reproduction of social meanings as well as the struggle to impose visions and perceptions of the world that constitute social identities, understanding that these narrations are the basis of a particular form of a historical, collective imagination in Salta. Thus, in an indirect way, this paper analyses the political uses of the History considering the dispute over meanings and images of the past.

Keywords : Historical narratives of Salta; Images of the past; Politics and Culture; Anthropology.

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