"Stop believing that we lack history": State and intellectuals in the construction of the official historiography of Chubut (1958-1968)

Our aim is to explain the ways in which, since the formation of the provincial state in Chubut (1957), an official narration of its past was constituted by the government as well as by the province’s intellectuals, organized in the Board of Historical Studies. Such narration of Chubut’s past played...

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Autor principal: Williams, Guillermo
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/29263
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Sumario:Our aim is to explain the ways in which, since the formation of the provincial state in Chubut (1957), an official narration of its past was constituted by the government as well as by the province’s intellectuals, organized in the Board of Historical Studies. Such narration of Chubut’s past played a key role in the organization of the provincial State, as it centred around the actions of groups considered as “agents of civilization”: the welsh settlers, the Salesian priests, and the Spanish colonial settlements, thus negating the agency of the indigenous peoples of Chubut.