indigenismo

m.

Indianism.

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indigenismo

► nombre masculino

1 (movimiento) indigenous movement

2 (vocablo) native language borrowing

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SM

1) (=movimiento) indigenism, pro-Indian political movement; (=estudio) study of Indian societies and cultures

2) (Ling) word/phrase borrowed from a native language

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indigenismo

masculine

A (doctrina, estudio) indigenism

B (Ling) indigenous word ( o expression etc)

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indigenismo nm

1. [cultural] Indianism

2. [político] indigenism

3. [palabra, frase] indigenism, = word originating from an indigenous language

INDIGENISMO

During the colonial period, and even after independence, the indigenous peoples of Latin America were often regarded as inferior by the leaders of cultural thought among those of European or mixed-race descent. This generated a sense of guilt among many intellectuals when they confronted the issue of indigenous peoples in their society, and led to the growth of a movement in their favour. The political and cultural analyses of the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui (1895-1930) were one manifestation of this tendency. In Mexico, the pro-Indian policies of the government of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) redressed many injustices, but scandalized the traditional urban elite. In literature, “indigenista” writers took as their subject the lives, and more particularly the sufferings, of the Indian. Major works of this kind, such as the Ecuadoran Jorge Icaza's “Huasipungo” (1934) or “Los ríos profundos” (1958) by Peru's José María Arguedas have undoubted power, though latterly their sometimes crude realism has been contrasted unfavourably with “magic realist” treatments of Indian culture, such as “Hombres de Maíz” (1949) by Guatemala's Miguel Angel Asturias.