Escuela Castellana en Monte Saladino: Conflicto y territorialización lingüistica en Figueroa, Santiado del estero (1920-2010)

conflicto y territorialización lingüistica en Figueroa, Santiado del estero (1920-2010)

Abstract

Tracing the socio-historical trajectory of a rural town in the heart of the department of Figueroa (Santiago del Estero, Argentina), we describe a case of Quichua-Spanish bilingualism as a process of contested territorialization from the mid-twentieth century to today. While showing that this is a case of situated bilingualism, we discuss the polarized positions of local chauvinism and academic criticism, the methodological assumptions of which do not approach in an ethnographic way the conflicting processes which respectively deny or exaggerate about the bilingual population in Santiago del Estero