Being Kolla: Indigenous Identity in Northwestern Argentina. Being Kolla: Indigenous Identity in Northwestern Argentina.

Being Kolla: Indigenous Identity in Northwestern Argentina‪.‬

Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2002, July, 27, 54

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Abstract. Using a case study of the Kolla in Argentina, this paper considers how indigenous identity may be constructed, practiced, and imagined in Latin America. People in the northwestern highlands have only recently begun to reclaim an identity as "indigenous" people. Reimagining their identity has been highly contested by the larger society. Nationally, the image of Argentina as a "European" nation denies the inclusion of indigenous peoples. Moreover, many of the Kolla have found being identified as an "Indio" a source of stigma rather than of pride. The debate, shrouded in "scientific" jargon on language, archaeological sites, and historical migration, has immediate and material consequences: "indigenous" peoples are entitled to specific rights in the national constitution, rights which poor white peasants do not necessarily share. Resume. A partir d'une etude de cas sur les Kollas d'Argentine, cet article explore comment on construit, pratique et imagine une identite autochtone en Amerique latine. Les habitants des hautes terres du nord-ouest de l'Argentine cherchent depuis peu a retrouver une identite autochtone, demarche fortement opposee par le reste de la societe. Le fait que l'Argentine se fasse d'elle-meme une image "europeenne" est incompatible avec l'inclusion de peuples indigenes. En outre, pour de nombreux Kollas etre considere comme un "Indio" est davantage une source de stigmatisation que de fierte. Ce debat, qui est enveloppe d'un jargon "scientifique" en matiere de langue, de sites archeologiques et de migration historique, a pourtant comme consequence concrete et immediate le principe que les autochtones ont des droits specifiques au sein d'une constitution nationale qui ne coincident pas necessairement avec ceux des paysans pauvres d'origine europeenne.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2002
July 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
42
Pages
PUBLISHER
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
245.3
KB

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