Fiesta, memoria y nación. Ritos, símbolos y discursos, 1573-1830

Serge Gruzinski nos ofrece un logrado trabajo de inmersión en algunas de las más relevantes expresiones del sincretismo cultural, con el propósito de trazar la naturaleza de este complejo imaginario vivo en la memoria cultural de nuestro pasado indígena.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Sólo en 1837 se instauró en Chile una gran fiesta nacional. Con anterioridad, existía una multiplicidad festiva, y tres fechas eran celebradas mediante fiestas cívicas: el 18 de septiembre de 1810, el 12 de febrero de 1817 y 1818, y el 5 de abril de este último año. Esta trilogía de conmemoraciones recordaba distintos hitos del proceso independentista y simbólicamente representaban la regeneración política, la independencia y su consolidación, respectivamente. Sin embargo, con el paso del tiempo, las autoridades de la época comenzaron a definir una sola fiesta nacional, entre...