Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología

Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol | eISSN 2011-4273 | ISSN 1900-5407

Heritage and Ethnopolitics of Memory: The Past as an Ideological Instrument in the Fiesta del Zocán en el Templo del Sol de Sogamoso

No. 12 (2011-01-01)
  • Pablo F. Gómez-Montañez
https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda12.2011.09

Abstract

The present article is a result of ethnographic field work about the celebration of the Fiesta del Huan in el Templo del Sol, located in the Archeological Museum of Sogamoso. Its objective is to reflect and understand the relation between ethnicity and heritage like a troubled and ideological field where several struggles for the administration of memory, the legitimacy of the past and the definition of new social identities and its future occur.

Keywords: heritage, memory, ideological device, ethnopolitics