Abstract

FABREGAT PEREDO, Mario. Forensic procedures practiced by city doctors in cases of indigenous homicides: Province of Cautín (Chile), 1896-1911. Rev. hist. am. argent. [online]. 2022, vol.57, n.2, pp.193-229.  Epub Nov 23, 2022. ISSN 2314-1549.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.44.032.

This exploratory study describes the characteristics of medico-legal reports by city and province doctors who served in the region of La Araucanía. We state that the medical-forensic intervention, as part of the bureaucratic functions, had the objective of establishing and consolidating state dominance in the conquered territories based on the imagined political nation. This intervention could have led the doctors -as part of a soft army- to negatively discriminate against the Mapuche population in their professional intervention, affecting the quality of their forensic reports. We have focused on a set of summaries by homicide of indigenous people requested by the Chilean justice mainly in the department of Temuco, Province of Cautin between 1896 and 1920.

Keywords : Araucanía; colonialism; legal medicine; Cautin Province; 19th and 20th centuries.

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