Abstract

PAS, Hernán. Lautaro's Echo?: Aborigine Languages as Cultural Patrimony of Creole Nationalism in the 19th Century. Anclajes [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.2, pp.73-92. ISSN 1851-4669.

The Independence Wars established a strategic alliance in all ¨Hispanoamérica ¨ -more symbolic than social or military- between Creole insurgents and indigenous peoples, which purpose would be to legitimize the warlike conflict against Spain. In the middle of the century, when the State-Nation projects began to be designed for expansion and territorial occupation, the indigenous populations were reconsidered by the Creole imaginary; this time; however, not as political subjects of a potential coalition but as heirs of a highly respected linguistic code. This work proposes to investigate the literate construction of such heritages in a series of texts that, by combining Romanticism and Scientism, shaped the aim of such exploration in South-America.

Keywords : Indigenous languages; Cultural heritage; Literate elites; Philology and Linguistics; 19th Century.

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