The effect of the 1925 Guna rebellion and the social sciences in Panama
Abstract
In February 1925, the Guna people of the San Blas region (now Guna Yala) rose up against the Panamanian state and established the short-lived Republic of Tule. The presence of Richard Marsh, an American, among the rebel groups allowed for the mediating intervention of the representative of the US legation in Panama, Glover South, and a peace agreement that helped regulate the role of the state in the region and contributed to the socio-political development of the Guna in the following decades, with a greater degree of political autonomy through the creation of the indigenous reserve, later declared a Comarca (1930, 1938). This work explores some aspects of the political and intellectual conditions that existed in Panama in the period immediately following the Guna rebellion in 1925 and the subsequent development of some social disciplines, especially anthropology, history, and indigenism. In addition, it will be seen how the Guna reinforced their already established image in relation to the state system and Panamanian society in general thanks to the reception of information from the media.
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