El artículo presenta una problematización antropológica sobre los festejos de aniversarios de iglesias indígenas en el Chaco argentino. Se analizan las formas en que convergen procesos de cambio cultural y performances sociales de reputación y pertenencia étnico-religiosa. La indagación observa estas celebraciones como instituciones culturales nativas transformadas en su derrotero histórico y dinamizadoras de formas de sociabilidad, efervescencia colectiva, competencia y gestión del poder espiritual y/o político. El estudio subraya la vitalidad contemporánea de los aniversarios en clave de performances políticas y estéticas para reflexionar sobre sus dimensiones disruptivas e instituyentes.

Drawing on several of the ideas contained in David Lehmann's text "Beyond Decoloniality: A Discussion of Some Key Concepts" (2023), in this paper I propose a different way of understanding the relationship between indigenous mobilization in Latin America in recent decades, decolonial studies and other forms of what I call "the colonial framework". The central argument develops around indigenous mobilization, which I see as changing and in a process of complexification, in which relations to ideas of decolonization are evident, but not the only ones informing its political action. By taking these two elements into account, the relationship between mobilization, decolonization and democracy is understood in a different way and with different consequences than those proposed by Lehmann.