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From its origins, at the end of the 19th century, the representations on San Carlos de Bariloche were linked to European issues. The "Argentinian Switzerland" and the land of "European pioneers" became images that constituted hegemonic discourses about the city. These narratives constructed an identity of "barilochenses" that silenced the relevancy in the city of the flow of Latin-American migrants, integrated historically by Chileans and from the seventies by Bolivians and Paraguayans, among others. In this context, communities of migrants carried through a multiplicity of strategies, among which those related to their religious practices standed out, since they intended to achieve recognition and visibility in the city. In this paper we analyze the characteristics of the hegemonic discourse and its interpellation between 1970 and 2000. In the first case we will trace the devices that operated, during these years, to reinforce the imaginary one of an "European" Bariloche, where Latin-American communities are excluded from this construction. Secondly, we will analyze the strategies linked with religiousness implemented by these communities, in its relationship with Rio Negro church, to interpellate this discourse within the public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of the nineteenth century, a process of modernization and development took place in Argentina, within the frame of the nation-state consolidation. In this context, the country witnessed a discursive profusion that expected to introduce disciplinary instruments into society, among which the creation of a modern maternal ideal can be mentioned. This paper analyzes the main topics of such discourses, through one the main media available to spread them in rural central and southern Buenos Aires in our period: the local press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discussing with the frame on the same phenomena recently proposed by Fortunato Mallimaci, this paper suggests a periodization and some hypotheses for the interpretation of secularism and secularization process in Argentina from the Bourbon reforms to the present. From an explanation of the sense that the author gives to the concepts of secularism and secularization, it offers a periodization scheme that appeals to the concepts of "umbral de secularización" and "pacto laico" coined by Jean Baubérot for France and for Latin Europe. As an interpretive scheme, the article does not constitute a summary of the history of Catholicism or the relations between Church and State. For this reason, the stages that the author considers are worth reinterpreting-essentially the turn of the century- have deserved more attention than others and therefore have greater development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the preliminary results of the study in course focused in the visual memories of Chaco Province immigration between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century, taking in consideration their life histories registered in photography. The main purpose is to outline a social, historical and esthetical retrospective of Chaco photography practice, and to analyze through the photographic testimony, how immigrants view themselves and construct their own images and signification, from life celebrations --baptisms, weddings and birthdays--up to even the certification of death --funeral rituals--. The work presents a first approach to a series of photographs taken between the 1880 and the 1950 decades in mostly Italian immigrant villages of the region. It considers a reflexive exercise based on the identification of common and reiterative elements within the heterogeneous photographic corpus of Chaco province immigration. Finally, the study analyzes the privileged representational models as the production and use conditions of photography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]