Universitas Humanística (Jul 2010)

Chibcha civilization and the construction of New Granada nation

  • Oscar Guarín Martínez

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 70, no. 70
pp. 205 – 222

Abstract

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The emergence of Chibcha civilization does not have any antecedent previous to the 1900’s, when it emerged in the nineteenth-century historiography. This paper problematizes and analyzes how the idea of Chibcha civilization, preceding the formation of a nation, was an argument put forward by 19th century historiography to create the idea of historic continuity and political unity in the New Granada nation.

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