Critical analysis of the manuscript El Cacique de Andacollo, by Pablo Galleguillos (1931)

Abstract

The following essay critically analyzes the manuscript El Cacique de Andacollo, written in 1931 by Chilean historian Pablo Galleguillos, a document that remained almost a century in familiar hands but unknown to the scientific community, being recently published in the re-edition of a compilation about the author. At the beginning, a very brief review of the bibliographical antecedents that exist on the central theme treated by the original manuscript is made, in order to, in the following section, critically analyze the text from a review of its main parts and contents, of the author’s motivation and of the central theme of the writing, critically linking this important manuscript with the map of sources and studies of disciplinary references on the scriptural production and the reading forms in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century.