TY - JOUR

T1 - Arguedas

T2 - Capital y conversión

AU - Benezra, Karen

PY - 2021/6

Y1 - 2021/6

N2 - In José María Arguedas's anthropological studies of Peru's southern central highlands, transculturation codes the historical logic of capital. The present essay takes, as its point of departure, Latin American subalternist critics who, in the 1990s and 2000s, identified the supposedly homogenizing logic of capital with that of transculturation or mestizaje as state ideology. By contrast, more recent interventions in postcolonial and Marxist theory suggest that what was at stake for Andean society and culture was not its wholesale destruction or incorporation into the nation-state, but rather the expedience of its preservation for the accumulation of capital. Arguedas's treatment of transculturation as a question of the so-called total conversion of the subject of highland property into a bourgeois individual mirrors the kind of anthropological transformation that Marx posited as part of the historical arc of capitalism's development and supposedly imminent demise. By underscoring the moment of total conversion as a semblance necessary for capturing non-capitalist ways of life, Arguedas's studies provide a space for considering the subjective effects of capital beyond teleological or reductive understandings of its historical unfolding.

AB - In José María Arguedas's anthropological studies of Peru's southern central highlands, transculturation codes the historical logic of capital. The present essay takes, as its point of departure, Latin American subalternist critics who, in the 1990s and 2000s, identified the supposedly homogenizing logic of capital with that of transculturation or mestizaje as state ideology. By contrast, more recent interventions in postcolonial and Marxist theory suggest that what was at stake for Andean society and culture was not its wholesale destruction or incorporation into the nation-state, but rather the expedience of its preservation for the accumulation of capital. Arguedas's treatment of transculturation as a question of the so-called total conversion of the subject of highland property into a bourgeois individual mirrors the kind of anthropological transformation that Marx posited as part of the historical arc of capitalism's development and supposedly imminent demise. By underscoring the moment of total conversion as a semblance necessary for capturing non-capitalist ways of life, Arguedas's studies provide a space for considering the subjective effects of capital beyond teleological or reductive understandings of its historical unfolding.

KW - Kunstwissenschaft

KW - Arguedas

KW - anthropology

KW - transculturation

KW - modernization

KW - subsumption

KW - capital

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111309682&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/90558730-ae6e-32ac-b0dd-f91e0a99fb87/

U2 - 10.1353/rvs.2021.0022

DO - 10.1353/rvs.2021.0022

M3 - Zeitschriftenaufsätze

AN - SCOPUS:85111309682

VL - 55

SP - 319

EP - 344

JO - Revista de Estudios Hispanicos

JF - Revista de Estudios Hispanicos

SN - 0034-818X

IS - 2

ER -