Territorialized epistemes, situated heteronomies and ethnohistoriographic narratives as a genealogical dispositives in San Juan de la Frontera
The purpose of this article is to discuss the common meanings that local historiography has attributed to the notion of frontier associated with the name of the city of San Juan in 1562. We can identify three explanations for this term. The first is associated with 19th century historians linked to...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia
2025
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| Sumario: | The purpose of this article is to discuss the common meanings that local historiography has attributed to the notion of frontier associated with the name of the city of San Juan in 1562. We can identify three explanations for this term. The first is associated with 19th century historians linked to liberal ideas. The second is associated with the New Argentine School of History, which reinterprets the first and reproduces or discusses earlier hypotheses. Finally, contemporary explanations associate the notion of frontier with the natural border of the Andes. In this investigation, the term "frontier" is linked to its lexicological and semantic association with the word "tapia" (wall), understanding, in Foucauldian terms, their relationship as the result of territorialized epistemes and situated heteronomies that function as a genealogical dispositive for governance projects and capital accumulation. Some assertions in Cuyo's historiographical narratives seem more plausible than others. All the evidence suggests that San Juan was called "of the frontier" because of friction with the indigenous world, which is one of the most convincing explanations. |
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