THE DANCES OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE IN THE XIX CENTURY

Abstract

In the long process of gaining independence of Hispanic Continental America, between 1809 and 1825, marches and battles were not everything. Beatriz Rossells, a Bolivian anthropologist, describes in this article the dances of independence organized for San Martín, Bolívar, Sucre and other leaders in the cities they liberated, representative of the larger American homeland for which they were fighting.