Casta(s), “sociedad de castas” e indigenismo: la interpretación del pasado colonial en el siglo XX

Despite some recent critical voices, the Latin American colonial society is generally characterized as a “society of castes”. The popularization of this interpretation resulted in a number of cliché, being the more remarkable one the idea of a racial hierarchy in the colonial society and, as a conse...

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Autor principal:	Laura Giraudo
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2018
Materias:	casta caste society indigenismo Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/bd4d95d8843c49b0ad6f953051eb467e
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bd4d95d8843c49b0ad6f953051eb467e2021-12-02T10:30:55ZCasta(s), “sociedad de castas” e indigenismo: la interpretación del pasado colonial en el siglo XX1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.72080https://doaj.org/article/bd4d95d8843c49b0ad6f953051eb467e2018-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/72080https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252Despite some recent critical voices, the Latin American colonial society is generally characterized as a “society of castes”. The popularization of this interpretation resulted in a number of cliché, being the more remarkable one the idea of a racial hierarchy in the colonial society and, as a consequence, the idea of a “colonial racial legacy” in the contemporary society. The article explores the emergence and consolidation of the idea of a “society of castes”, analyzing the debate around casta(s) and its use in social sciences, the relevant role played by some specific authors in the 1940s (Ángel Rosenblat and Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán), and the use of casta(s) among indigenistas. The evidence suggests that it probably was in the 1940s, due to the work of social scientists, when the presence of castas and of a casta terminology came to entail the existence of a “system of castes”, or a society founded in a racial segregation. Meanwhile, in the indigenista field, regardless of the use of casta(s), the emergence of a powerful image of the past, stressing colonial continuity from Conquest to present-day, was critical to the “description” of Latin America and its peoples.Laura GiraudoCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticlecastacaste societyindigenismoAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2018)
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description	Despite some recent critical voices, the Latin American colonial society is generally characterized as a “society of castes”. The popularization of this interpretation resulted in a number of cliché, being the more remarkable one the idea of a racial hierarchy in the colonial society and, as a consequence, the idea of a “colonial racial legacy” in the contemporary society. The article explores the emergence and consolidation of the idea of a “society of castes”, analyzing the debate around casta(s) and its use in social sciences, the relevant role played by some specific authors in the 1940s (Ángel Rosenblat and Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán), and the use of casta(s) among indigenistas. The evidence suggests that it probably was in the 1940s, due to the work of social scientists, when the presence of castas and of a casta terminology came to entail the existence of a “system of castes”, or a society founded in a racial segregation. Meanwhile, in the indigenista field, regardless of the use of casta(s), the emergence of a powerful image of the past, stressing colonial continuity from Conquest to present-day, was critical to the “description” of Latin America and its peoples.
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title	Casta(s), “sociedad de castas” e indigenismo: la interpretación del pasado colonial en el siglo XX
title_short	Casta(s), “sociedad de castas” e indigenismo: la interpretación del pasado colonial en el siglo XX
title_full	Casta(s), “sociedad de castas” e indigenismo: la interpretación del pasado colonial en el siglo XX
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Casta(s), “sociedad de castas” e indigenismo: la interpretación del pasado colonial en el siglo XX

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