TERRITORY AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN CULTURE AND POLITICS PART I: INSTITUTIONAL ITINERARY OF FEDERICO DAUS 1922 1957

Abstract

A chronology of the institutional itinerary of Federico Daus is presented, through the schools and associations to which he belonged and through those people he worked with. Primary and secondary information was used. His years in the Universities of Buenos Aires, La Plata, as well as the changes experienced by both institutions during the ascent of Perón are characterized. His role after that is also briefly described. Initially, Daus acts in an environment linked to archeology, developing his interest in territorial issues at the same time. With the onset of Peronism, his presence evolves in a context of separation between anthropology and geography. During this transition, Daus takes office in the Ministry of Education, playing a role unrelated to territorial issues. Subsequently, he is appointed as Dean of the School of Philosophy and Literature, where he had been holding faculty positions for more than twenty years. Simultaneously, he is elected as president of GÆA, Argentine Society of Geographical Studies. In 1956 he is removed from his university chair, by means of administrative retirement. Daus has now for more time for writing, enabling him to deliver his masterpiece “Geografía y Unidad Argentina”, which represents a high synthesis on the Argentine territory.