Alcides Arguedas

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Alcides Arguedas

Alcides Arguedas (15 July 1879 – 8 May 1946) was a Bolivia

Bolivia

The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....
n writer and historian.

He was born in La Paz, where he studied law and political science. He later studied sociology in Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
and represented his country at several diplomatic missions in both Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
and America

Americas

The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions....
. He was also a deputy and a senator, and for a while served as minister of agriculture. He died in Chulumani, department of La Paz

La Paz

Nuestra Se?ora de La Paz is the administrative Capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of La Paz Department, Bolivia. As of the 2001 census, the city of La Paz had a population of 789,585, and together with the neighboring cities of El Alto and Viacha, make the biggest urban area of Bolivia, with a population of over 1.6 mill...
.

Arguedas was a keen observer of – and much of his work was inspired by – the indigenous inhabitants of the Andean

Andes

The Andes form the world's longest exposed mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. The range is over 7,000 km long, 200-700 km wide , and of an average height of about 4,000 m ....
altiplano, their cultures, and their customs. More controversially, he believed that Bolivia's best hopes lay in a decidedly Western or European orientation, at the expense of majority indigenous culture.