Historia y antropología de un enfrentamiento
In the Río de la Plata, as in Mexico, the construction of the nation-state on the basis of citizenship and the suppression of corporatism implied for the indigenous populations the loss of community lands, municipalities and autonomous territories. In both republics, the national process throughout the nineteenth century was arduous and slow, shaken by internal wars between political factions and by military interventions by foreign powers. The comparison focuses mainly on the struggles and demands of the indigenous peoples, on the international ramifications, and on the exaltation, by the new republics, of an idealized past. In the second part, dedicated to the indigenous problem, the political strategies of the main actors of the native peoples are analyzed, as well as the transformation of the colonial "Indian" and the sovereign "tribes" into peasants, laborers, proletarians or peo...read more
