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Notes:
1-There are no historical works that
cover what is today all of Argentina, but
there are for the Plata Basin, see the
classic by Elena Scheuss de Studer
(1958) and a more recent work by Alex
Borucki (2011), for reliable and well
researched statistics.

5-For the Candombe of this practice,
see Cirio 2003a
6-It is noteworthy that this NGO also
focuses on original Argentine populations, as its name suggests.
7-I exclude one earlier than all of them,
the brotherhoods, as is explained in the
above sections on Saint Balthazar and
Ánimas, because it was not their own
project. It was imposed by the dominant
society.

2-Mexican author Carlos Fuentes wrote
in Valiente mundo nuevo (1990) that
Mexicans descended from the Aztecs,
Peruvians from the Incas, and the Argentines from ships. His funny and simplistic reasoning immediately touched
upon our common sense, because it
concords with the nineteenth-century
ideology that imagined us as a nation
descended from Europeans that was
proudly different from the rest of America (Cirio 2010d). This prejudice can
still be found in scientific thinking. For
example, Ruiz y García make no room
for Afro-Argentines when they affirm
that Argentines who don’t belong to
foundations groups descend from immigrants who “descended from ships.”

8-Considering how embryonic this issue
was in Halbwachs’ era, certain vagueries that impede a systematic understanding of his ideas are to be understood, for example, about which concept of group he was working with.
9-The protest was replicated on the next
April 17th, and the authorities have not
yet issued a final decision.
10-End of the poem “Ser
rodescendiente” (Cirio 2012: 235).

3-Zamba culture, which results from the
relationship between blacks and natives,
is still quite unexplored. Archaeological
tests have found texts and oral testimonies in two of the nation’s areas: central
Santa Fe, with the Mocovís, and Patagonia, with the Mapuches and Teheulches. I hope to publish partial research on this topic very soon.

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Bibliography
Anderson, Benedict. (2000). Comunidades imaginadas : Reflexiones sobre el
origen y la difusión del nacionalismo.
Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Andrews, George Reid. (1989) [1980].
Los afroargentinos de Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor.

4-Uptil now, word of the “discovery”
did not spread beyond newspapers and
some opportunistic state presence (like
the INADI safari visit, with pith helmets).

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