Indios y nación en el Perú decimonónico: la desunión imaginada

• Autores: Ulrich Mücke
• Localización: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas = Anuario de Historia de América Latina ( JbLA ), ISSN-e 2194-3680, Nº. 36, 1999, págs. 219-232
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • This article examines the way Indians and the nation were imagined in nineteenth-century Peru. It argues that the discourse on Indians was of great importance to the liberal understanding of the nation. The inclusion of the Incan empire into the nation's past gave the young republic a long history and justified its independence from Spain by highlighting the Indians' liberation from colonial oppression. The exploitation and marginalization of Indians in republican Peru was seen as proof of the persistence of backwardness which had to be overcome through modernization. The view of the Indians as excluded from the nation continues to dominate, although the understanding of what an Indian is has changed. At the end of the article, I examine the way in which changing views on Indians were incorporated into the old image of the nation.