Civilization and Barbarism: When Barbarism Builds Cities |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Ana?IgaretaEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Departamento Científico de Arqueología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n∘, CP 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Abstract: | Around the mid-nineteenth century, D. F. Sarmiento introduced in Argentine literature the duality of “civilization and barbarism,”
assuming that it was, at that time, an inescapable model in the analysis of society. Early in the 1880s, when the “conquest
of the desert” came to an end and conflicts between city inhabitants and their urbanistic and “civilizing” urban plannings,
vis-à-vis the rural populations that assumedly resisted change, worsened, the model acquired a new meaning. Taking one particular
case of analysis, the foundation of the city of La Plata in lands owned by the Estancia Iraola, this paper uses archaeology
to explore the limitations and falsehoods of such duality, jointly with the assumption of a simplistic relation of determinism
between an environment and a particular human group. |
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Keywords: | civilization barbarism urbanization Argentina historical archaeology |
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