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<p>For a long time, the effective management of Argentina’s national territory was largely due to the expansion of Catholicism into previously inhospitable areas. Here, priests played a significant role, as they would travel through their territory instead of confining themselves to their parish office. This article focuses on two concrete and representative examples of these phenomena in Argentina: the priest Brochero, who worked in the province of Córdoba between the 1870s and 1910s, and the priest Vázquez, who worked in Catamarca between the 1930s and 1970s. This paper aims to show that the processes of mytho-practical cultural creativity gave rise in both cases to narratives, both native and institutional, that construct them as civilizing “founding fathers”, their respective regions in contexts where the nation-state was virtually absent. The methodological strategy combines the analysis of data from our ethnographic research with documentary sources obtained from local archives.</p>

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Founding Fathers and Mytho-Practical Constructions Around the Priests Brochero and Vázquez (Argentina)

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    2026年4月1日

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  • Bárbara Martínez,
  • Rodolfo Puglisi

摘要

For a long time, the effective management of Argentina’s national territory was largely due to the expansion of Catholicism into previously inhospitable areas. Here, priests played a significant role, as they would travel through their territory instead of confining themselves to their parish office. This article focuses on two concrete and representative examples of these phenomena in Argentina: the priest Brochero, who worked in the province of Córdoba between the 1870s and 1910s, and the priest Vázquez, who worked in Catamarca between the 1930s and 1970s. This paper aims to show that the processes of mytho-practical cultural creativity gave rise in both cases to narratives, both native and institutional, that construct them as civilizing “founding fathers”, their respective regions in contexts where the nation-state was virtually absent. The methodological strategy combines the analysis of data from our ethnographic research with documentary sources obtained from local archives.