Tomás Guevara and the Mapuche people

Authors

  • Mariana Moreno Castilho Universidade de São Paulo

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss Tomás Guevara’s (1863-1935) indigenism based on the interference of the ideal of nation and the conception of an educational solution to the imagined “indigenous problem”. Guevara was principal of the Liceo de Hombres de Temuco and one of the precursors in the development of ethnographic studies on the Mapuche people. He wrote under the influence of positivism, of evolutionism and of racial theories. His discourse reveals his concern about forming a cultural homogeneity capable of delimiting the chilenidad. Vis-à-vis this ideal, the mapuche culture was represented as interdicted and education as a tool to disseminate the national ideals, aiming to dilute cultural differences.

Keywords: education, nationalism, Mapuche.

Author Biography

Mariana Moreno Castilho, Universidade de São Paulo

Atua nas áreas de História do Brasil e América, desenvolvendo pesquisas sobre indigenismo no período do final do século XIX e início do XX. Em sua tese de doutorado, "O indígena no olhar de José Veríssimo", perseguiu como a imagem de alteridade do indígena se constituiu no olhar desse intelectual. É doutora em História Social pela Universidade de São Paulo (2012), mestre em História Cultural pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2006) e possui graduação pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2003). Atualmente desenvolve a pesquisa de pós-doutorado, "Identidade chilena e alteridade mapuche no pensamento de Tomás Guevara", junto ao Departamento de História da Universidade de São Paulo, com bolsa FAPESP e com período de pesquisa no Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos (2014), na Universidad de Chile.

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Published

2016-03-15

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2016): May/August

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