Construccion y legitimacion de un nuevo orden politico: ideologia y rituales, Jujuy (1810-1813)

the purpose of this paper is to explain how new political ideologies were represented trough civic rituals after the 1810 revolution in small and far-away places such as san salvador de jujuy. the case of jujuy shows how the revolution brought about a conflict between new and old conceptes of "sovereignity" and "nation" as spanish authority was replaced, as also happened in the other urban centers of the rio de la plata region. new rituals and symbols legitimized the new political order. this was especially important in the areas of conflict betwenn patriots and royalists such as jujuy.