RE-IMAGINING THE "INDIAN" AND THE STATE: INDIGENISMO IN COLOMBIA, 1926-1947

Abstract. This article examines the development of indigenismo in Colombia from 1927 to 1947. As a national and state-sanctioned cultural movement, Colombian indigenismo did not achieve the same development and importance as its Peruvian and Mexican counterparts. However, Colombian indigenismo created a cultural and political space mat rediscovered and valorized the indigenous communities and their culture. More importantly, this cultural movement had a significant political impact in that it created links between the new national intellectuals of the 1930s and the social indigenous movement in the southwestern department of the Cauca. The present-day success of the indigenous movement in …