Abstract

STEFANONI, Pablo. Jano in the Andes: searching for the nation’s mythical cradle. Arqueologists and teachers in the 1931 Bolivian Indianist Week. Rev Cien Cult [online]. 2012, n.29, pp.51-81. ISSN 2077-3323.

This article focusses in a group of intellectuals (archeologists and teachers) who looked to Tiwanaku's past glories as a Golden Age energy that should be renewed in order to think a glowing future for Bolivia. They even got to reconcile two terms, until then contradictory: Indians and nation. The author deals with the Indianist Week carried out in 1931 as well as with the indianist cultural archeological movement, whose actions, intended to find a new future for Bolivia in the pre-colonial past. So, argues the author, nationalism and autochthonism were threading up a foundational narra-tion. After the Chaco war, most of these ideas -and millenarian imaginaries-are to be articulated by the new revolutionary nationalism (first with military hegemony, and later with a popular/civilian one) to a national project where Tiwanaku splendid ruins were not just the mythical cradle for aymaras but for the whole Bolivia.

Keywords : Bolivia; Nation; Indianist Week; Tiwanaku; Indigenism.

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