Montonereando: A Look from La Rioja Folklore about the Actions of the Chacho and the Popular Sectors of La Rioja, during the Process of Formation and National Organization 1853-1863

Authors

  • Dante Matías Herrera Universidad Nacional de La Rioja

Keywords:

montoneras, culture, representations, caudillo

Abstract

The study of the process of formation and organization of the Argentine national state offers us a
conflictual framework formed by various components that, in turn, integrated and were related to the
material and symbolic structures of the social sectors in question. Of these sectors, the collective and
political participation of La Rioja montoneras, led by the caudillo Ángel Vicente, El Chacho, Peñaloza,
was one of the last remnants of the federal project in the period of 1853-1863, which we study in this
work through the analysis of manifestations of popular folklore culture. The starting point is the critique
of mitrista/sarmientina history, which, while maintaining a historiographical work based on certain
interests, meant the marginalization, omission and vandalization of those sectors, in this case the
popular people of Rioja, in liberal history. Based on this position and the proposed objectives, the
analyses and interpretations of the representations of Rioja’s grassroots sectors as historical sources,
take into account the social experience and concretize an approach to a national history that makes
visible the actions and voices of the Rioja women who accompanied the Chacho in the various gestures
surrounding the conflict of the national organization.

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Author Biography

  • Dante Matías Herrera, Universidad Nacional de La Rioja

    Profesor en
    Historia para Nivel Secundario y Superior
    por la Universidad Nacional de La Rioja
    (UNLaR), La Rioja, Argentina; Licenciado
    en Historia (UNLaR), La Rioja, Argentina; y
    profesor de danzas con, orientación en
    folklore y tango (Instituto Superior de
    Formación Docente en Arte y
    Comunicación "Mario Alberto Crulcich", La
    Rioja, Argentina. Se desempeña como
    director del Instituto de Investigación y
    Capacitación Municipal, La Rioja,
    Argentina.

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Published

2024-08-09

How to Cite

Montonereando: A Look from La Rioja Folklore about the Actions of the Chacho and the Popular Sectors of La Rioja, during the Process of Formation and National Organization 1853-1863. (2024). Ágora UNLaR, 9(22), 20. https://revistaelectronica.unlar.edu.ar/index.php/agoraunlar/article/view/945