César Ceriani Cernadas D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, uba. Adjunct professor in the career of Anthropological Sciences of the UBA and permanent professor in the Doctorate in Social Sciences of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO, Argentina). His field of research is the anthropological study of religion, interested in the productions of religious diversity in Argentina and, particularly, in the historical and contemporary dynamics of indigenous Christianity in the Chaco region.

Temáticas

Social performance and historical transformation in the anniversary celebrations of indigenous Chaco churches (Argentina)

  • César Ceriani Cernadas

The article presents an anthropological problematization of the celebrations of indigenous church anniversaries in the Argentinean Chaco. It analyzes the ways in which processes of cultural change converge and performances social reputation and ethno-religious belonging. The study observes these celebrations as native cultural institutions transformed in their historical path and dynamizing forms of sociability, collective effervescence, competition and management of spiritual and/or political power. The study underlines the contemporary vitality of the anniversaries in the key of performances political and aesthetic to reflect on its disruptive and instituting dimensions.