Andes

Revista Completa

Telma Chaile (Dir.) — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Making Memories in Ancient Egypt

Perla Silvana Rodríguez — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Review of the tribute event 35 years of Andes journal, Anthropology and History.

Nadia Ivonne Carlos, Gisela Andreani, Ana Santa Cruz, Marta Eugenia Suarez — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Andes journal.

Telma Chaile, María Cecilia Castellanos — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Andes journal and the identity of the ICSOH, UNSa-CONICET

Guillermo Wilde — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

35 years of Andes Journal

María Mercedes Quiñonez — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Commemorative event for the 35 years of the Andes journal.

María Rita Martearena — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Critical events and clerical agency in the Río de la Plata and Tucumán.

Valentina Ayrolo (Organizadora), María Laura Mazzoni (Organizadora) — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This dossier brings together articles that examine critical events—understood as extraordinary and traumatic experiences—occurring across different regions during a period in which reform and revolution converged in Ibero-America. The historical contexts and critical junctures addressed reveal tensions within ecclesiastical and socio-political structures between the end of the colonial period and the early decades of the nineteenth century.

La compañía de Jesús volvería a España cuando hubiese perdido siete reinos” (the society of Jesus would return to Spain when it had lost seven kingdoms):

Nicolás Perrone — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Throughout the twentieth century, the question of how expelled Jesuits participated in the Latin American independence processes has generated extensive academic debate and a considerable number of publications. Many of these studies share a relatively similar approach: through the tools of intellectual, cultural, or educational history, they seek to examine whether and how certain works produced by members of the Society of Jesus influenced the formation of Latin American revolutionary elites. However, despite the valuable contributions of this scholarship, most have neglected a fundamental perspective: that of the Jesuits themselves.

The aim of this article is to analyze the opinions and positions of two expelled Jesuits—from Spain and the Río de la Plata—regarding the Latin American independence movements, through the study of two sources: the personal Diary (1808–1815) of the Castilian Manuel Luengo and the personal correspondence (1808–1818) of the Tucuman-born Diego León de Villafañe. The article seeks to understand these Jesuits’ political and religious stances not only in the context of these critical events, but also in light of the traumatic institutional and personal experiences of the expulsion and suppression of the Society of Jesus (1767–1773), as well as the expectations surrounding its restoration and reconstruction after 1814.

Additionally, the analysis of the Relación del restablecimiento de la sagrada Compañía de Jesús en el reyno de Nueva España (1816), which describes the celebrations following the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Mexico City, allows us to explore the expectations that certain sectors of the New Spanish elite developed regarding the Jesuits’ return amidst a context of local revolutionary upheaval. Examining the personal perspectives of these Jesuits and of the American elites sympathetic to them opens up new ways of approaching the longstanding debate on the relationship between these priests and the emancipation processes of the New World.

Cartography of a conflict:

María Elena Barral, Facundo Roca, Camilo Zarza Valencia — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article analyzes one of the recurring disputes that unfolded within the Buenos Aires ecclesiastical hierarchy during the late 18th century. This conflict involve the Bishop of Buenos Aires (Manuel Antonio De la Torre), his Provisor (Juan Baltasar Maciel), and the cathedral priests (José Antonio de Oro and Juan Cayetano Fernández de Agüero). Located in the scenario opened by the creation of the parishes of 1769, the study explores jurisdictional and material tensions, highlighting the strategic use of a city map presented by Oro to the Consejo de Indias as judicial evidence. The work reconstructs the history of the map, situating its creation and, crucially, its deployment within a conflict that anticipated key processes critical to the history of Buenos Aires, its bishopric, and the Río de la Plata region. Through an approach combining historical cartography with the analysis of documentary records, the article traces the spatial scales and political dynamics of the dispute, which involved prominent figures of the city’s high clergy.

Es acción santa matar a Rosas (it is a holy Act to kill rosas):

Fernando Gómez — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Clerical agency in critical contexts:

Valentina Ayrolo — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A widely held assumption suggests that in times of crisis, religious agents feel compelled to intervene and provide solutions. It is also often assumed that they are responsible for restoring the collective imaginaries damaged during “critical events” (Visakovsky, 2011), since they can give meaning to disorder.

Without denying these ideas, this article explores the opposite possibility. By examining the role played by several priests involved in the political crisis that unfolded in La Rioja during the first five years of the 1820s, it asks whether the priest should always be regarded as an agent of unity—or whether some clerics may also have contributed to the dissolution of certainties and the increase of divisions, fostering social unrest and tension.

Within this framework, the article analyzes clerical responses shaped by the broader process of crisis and social transformation triggered by the independence revolution. This situation created unique opportunities for individuals to alter their destinies. In this sense, the priests’ personal actions reveal not only that they did not always act as conciliators, but also that they embodied the crisis of the clerical model that had prevailed during the colonial period.

Cura entre a la revolución y cura soi’ (a priest between the revolution and being a priest):

María Laura Mazzoni — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article aims at analysing the political trajectory of the priest José Andrés Pacheco de Melo in relation to two critical events in the political history of the United Provinces of South America. First, it examines the consequences that the May Revolution of 1810 in Buenos Aires had for the clergyman’s life, particularly his participation as a deputy for Chichas in the Congress of Tucumán in 1816. Second, it explores his actions as part of the emerging political leadership of the new provincial states beginning in the 1820s.

The study of this priest’s biography allows for the construction of a dialogue between the religious dimension—intrinsic to Pacheco de Melo’s priestly condition—and various historical moments of political crisis. His actions during these critical junctures make it possible to reconstruct the interpretations developed by religious agents regarding the critical events that took place amid war and political conflict.

Discourse of desease, sanitarist imaginary and development in the pages of jornal do Brasil:

André Luís Lopes Borges de Mattos , Ana Paula Azevedo Hemmi — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this work we will discuss the relationship between the discourse of disease and the development agenda implemented by the Brazilian state in the Jequitinhonha Valley from the 1960s onwards. The association of the Jequitinhonha Valley with the idea of the “Valley of Misery” is well known and has been criticized in academic research. Nevertheless, considering the analysis of the development project, there seems to be a gap in the analysis regarding the role of the discourse of disease in the representation of poverty and economic backwardness in the region. This article intends to explore the hypothesis that the narratives about the Jequitinhonha Valley, as constructed by the press from the 1960s onwards, update the sanitarist imaginary of the countryside as a symbol of “Sick Brazil”. The analysis is based on documentary research in news published by Jornal do Brasil from 1960 to 1979. These texts demonstrates that illness is represented as a symptom of economic backwardness, helping to transform the region into the “public problem” that warrants government intervention.

In no man’s land:

Diego Valdivieso — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article addresses how precarity, made effective by the neoliberalisation of Chile’s labour regime and the implementation of employment casualisation and flexibility reforms within the public sector’s operational level, both explains and troubles the everyday practices of public officials at the bottom rung of the state’s organisational hierarchy. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork accompanying state employees charged with the implementation of a state-sponsored development programme in Chiloé, southern Chile, the article describes the labour conditions, institutional entanglements and organisational intricacies that allow for this programme to operate. It also explores its goals, methodologies, and the conditions that provide possibilities for action for those actors involved in the project’s implementation. In particular, the article reflects on how the position of these officials in the organisational structure – both as those who dwell at the bottom of the hierarchy or as those in between two institutions – produces an ambiguous environment in which the officials themselves have to navigate uncertainties, accept their reduced capacity to negotiate, find their space within this intricate arrangement and make the effort to produce and sustain an institutional belonging.

Political performance on social media:

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Considering the growing relevance of social media in the communication between political representatives and their voters, this article examines how Brazilian female MPs use X to address gender-related issues. For this purpose, we carry out a digital ethnography of the profiles of eight MPs from the 56th legislature – four right-wingers (Carla Zambelli, Bia Kicis, Caroline de Toni e Joice Hasselmann) and four left-wingers (Gleisi Hoffmann, Jandira Feghali, Sâmia Bomfim e Luiza Erundina). The profiles were monitored between March and November 2022, resulting in the selection of 249 posts dealing with topics related to women. The analysis revealed that the several types of violence against women and the elections received more attention from the parliamentarians. The results also point to different online behaviors depending on the MPs’ ideological profile.

Anthropology of State formation processes in Latin America.

Laura Navallo — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This dossier is the result of debates and academic meetings held by a group of researchers from Latin America interested in problematizing and discussing the State, policies, institutions, practices of power, and various forms of management and government. We understand these issues as constitutive of an Anthropology of State formation processes from an ethnographic perspective. In this regard, we have brought together three articles that present different ways in which the State is formed in Brazil and Chile at different historical moments.

Sentence and pathosformel in Zamba del laurel by Gustavo “Cuchi” Leguizamón

Santiago Roger Godoy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Taking advantage of the heuristic potential for analysis offered by BaileyShea's hypothesis, which states that a musical sentence is an impulse rather than a form, we discovered that in Zamba del Laurel by Gustavo Leguizamón a sentence condemnation operates; That is, the melody of the same musical space (the one corresponding to the first two modules of the verse of the previously named zamba) contains a variety of sentence types.. The breadth of historical moments and ways of composition with which the presence of these sentences in the analyzed zamba empathizes tells us about survivals that refer to a particular Phatosformel (Aby Warburg) internal to the same tonal tradition. It is then that prayer, in this sense, is presented as the condition of possibility for the Phatosformel to manifest itself without becoming fully confused with it or with any of its parts.

Public primary education in the National Territories:

Cecilia del Barro — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The process of schooling for children in Argentina’s National Territories at the beginning of the 20th century reveals signs of limited administrative reach on the part of the national government, aligning with recent research that points to a considerable degree of autonomy in these regions from the centralized model. The review of official documents produced by the agencies responsible for public education and territorial administration shows the active participation of inspectors as intermediaries between the national State, central regulations, and local needs. Aiming to contribute to the study of the expansion of primary education in the National Territories, this article argues that the material and social conditions of those regions—along with the limited capacity of the central government to exercise full control—may have facilitated the involvement of various actors in the implementation of educational policies. In this context, it analyzes the development of two school modalities: the tutorial system (boarding schools) and itinerant schools, based on a methodological approach that combines qualitative and quantitative tools.

Local referentiality in explanatory speech in quechua as spoken in Jujuy

Marcelo Fortunato Zapana — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In 2017, ten oral Quechua discourses spoken in Jujuy, Argentina, were collected in Lagunillas del Farallón. Four explanatory texts were selected for the study of the local referential system. The objectives are: (a) to identify the expressions used for referential anchoring; (b) to analyze the degrees of individuation of these expressions; and (c) to describe the mechanisms of referential tracking. The theoretical and methodological framework draws on the works on referentiality by Lehmann (2018) and Comrie (1994, 1998).

Among the results, it was found that, for referential anchoring, the most frequently used expressions are common nouns without determiners, such as atuq ‘fox’, allqus ‘dogs’, etc. Nominal phrases with a head and possessive determiner are also used, for example, llamainiyki ‘your llamas’, qallunchik ‘our language’, mamay ‘my mother’, among others. According to the degree of individuation, Quechua speakers tend to operate with concrete referents—specific and unique ones. For referential tracking, at the level of the simple clause, the reflexive suffix -ku is used. At the interclausal level, dependent clauses with the suffix -paq and the nominalizer -na, as well as those with the suffix -spa, are identified; these operate in relation to a control clause.

New archaeological records of early and middle Holocene human occupations in the puna region of Salta province (northwestern Argentina):

Claudio Javier Patané Aráoz, Rodolphe Hoguin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article presents studies carried out on a lithic sample (n=15) from seven open-air hunter-gatherer sites recorded during archaeological impact assessments conducted in various areas of the Puna region of Salta Province (northwestern Argentina). Within this sample, operational sequences and techno-functional units were analyzed in order to reconstruct knapping techniques and methods, as well as the functionality and operation of the artifacts, identifying and characterizing their transformative and prehensile parts. We also provide an initial characterization of each site from which these instruments originate. The records of these sites and the analysis of these artifacts contribute to filling gaps in the archaeological record and broaden current knowledge about human occupation during the Early and Middle Holocene in the Puna of Salta.

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Telma Chaile (Dir.) — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000