Resumo
Nationalism and its counterpart, modernism, are projects that involve the attempt to homogenise and incorporate the masses through the creation of a majority identity that usually leads to the classification of certain deviant groups as ?others?. In Spain, different social actors and the state have historically drawn on cultural and biological notions of ethnicity and race to construct a representation of the maragatos as a ?cursed? differential group and, while at the same time homogenizing and incorporating them to the nation in practice. By tracing a genealogy of the origins and evolution of the representations of maragato otherness created during the Enlightenment era, the Franco dictatorship and the current supermodern period, this paper argues that representations of otherness significantly influence current research agendas and understandings of identity, well beyond the disappearance of the actual subjects described as ?others?.
Palabras chave
Spain. Nation-building. Internal Others. Maragatería. Ethnicity. Identity.