Autor(es): Jaime Cuadriello
Resumen:
Abstract: Heroes, as we know them, are constructions of collective identity. Heroes are built during their life, but death plays the main role, since their ideas outlive them in the creations and institutions marked by their doings. To throw themselves into public life, heroes assume identities borrowed from a number of other heroes creating moral and physical genealogies. This happens especially when Native heroes become a benchmark in the process of creating a sense of belonging, when they operate as functional and foundational agents giving support to the rhetoric of national or regional identities. However, is it true, at the beginning of the millennium, that heroes are vanishing from civic and official ceremonies and that their strictly human trail rarely accepts the scrutiny of public opinion?