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GOMEZ, César Daniel  y  VEZZOSI, José Vicente. ʺVery Noble and Loyalʺ city of Santiago del Estero: The ʺmother of citiesʺ and the IV Centenary of its foundation. Trab. soc. [online]. 2018, n.30, pp.71-84. ISSN 1514-6871.

Several publications appeared in the late 1940s, revived the debate about the founder and date of founding of Santiago del Estero city. In the figures of Alfredo Gargaro, Junta de Estudios Históricos de Santiago del Estero president, and of Fray Mercedario Eudoxio de Jesús Palacio, was incarnated aguirrista (who maintained that the foundation was made by Francisco de Aguirre in 1553) and pradist (argued that Nuñez del Prado had been the founder in 1550) thesis respectively.In 1952 the province government, under command of the Peronist Francisco Javier González, entrusted to Academia Nacional de Historia the task to dictate about it. The failure favored the position promoted by Gargaro, and enabled the institutionalization aguirrista discourse and celebrations commemorating the IV Centennial in 1953 that were attended by President Perón. This paper analyzes the process of consecration of a specific report of the foundation that is framed in the enunciation of a discourse on identity in a moment of consolidation of Peronism in the province, with the aim of considering the use and the meaning that the different actors involved gave to these speeches, focusing on the one that was built from the government of the province. It is maintained that beyond the identification of the date and the founder with some particular current, the celebratory framework emerges as a conjuncture that would have allowed a picture of mutual legitimation between the political and the historical.

Palabras clave : Santiago del Estero fundation; Identity discourses; Peronismo.

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