Archetypes of nationhood: Folk culture, sugar industry, and the birth of cultural nationalism in Argentina, 1895–1945
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| Resum: | This dissertation studies the politics of culture, ethnicity, and folklore in Argentina during the first half of the twentieth century. It discusses how provincial and national elites changed their discourse on the mixed race people of northwestern Argentina—known as criollos—and the local culture associated with this population. The large European immigration that populated the littoral of Argentina between 1875 and 1910 allowed the Argentine elite to promote their country as the “only white country in Latin America.” This motto was far from the truth, however, since a large part of the population in the interior was not affected by the European migration. The elite dismissed the remaining non-white population as a barbaric and degenerated race, and openly debated its extinction. In the early twentieth century, however, elite attitudes changed and they began to consider the mixed race people of the interior as “paragons of nationhood.” The formula the elites devised to produce this change without abandoning the existing racial hierarchy was to declare the mixed race population as officially ‘white’ and, at the same time, to elevate the local culture to the position of national folklore. Within the context of the origins of cultural nationalism in Argentina, this dissertation focuses on the association between the constitution of the field of folklore studies and the rise of regional commercial agriculture, producing for the internal market. Drawing on public and privates archives, this dissertation demonstrates that the promotion of Argentine folklore in the interwar period was funded and influenced by key sugar industrialists who sought to bolster cultural nationalism in order to advocate economic protectionism. |
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| ISBN: | 9780496595150 |
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