出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：We intend to demonstrate that the existence of an «Antique Patagon» was an idea stemming from the political need —at the end of the 19th Century— of imagining a remote past for the young Argentinian nation. This article studies in historical context a group of anthropological writings of the 1870’s and 1880’s. Firstly, those of the Argentinian F.P. Moreno and the German-Argentinian H. Burmeister. Secondly, those of the Argentinian E. Zeballos. The former show the relation between nationalist interests and the scientifical debates of the time; the latter are the historical narrative corresponding to those interests.
