Abstract

MAFFUCCI MOORE, Javier Leandro. Indians, Immigrants and Local Population in northeast Santa Fe (1860-1890): A Violence Case in a Frontier Society. Andes [online]. 2007, n.18, pp.275-302. ISSN 1668-8090.

This work intends to explain the role violence played in specific interactions and conflicts between Indians, immigrants and Criollos without resorting to simple victim-exploiter categories, or by glorifying or demonizing any of the groups in struggle. With this purpose in mind it intends to find out the following: the strategies that the rival groups developed to survive and communicate between themselves; the impact of the frontier situation on Indian societies that were to a large extent outside the direct control of the authorities; the meaning that  the frontier had for the Whites, specially the immigrants,  and the alternatives it opened for the Indians; the bases on which coexistence was established and the role of the State in those circumstances; the influence of the legacy of previous contacts and of the immigrant's previous experiences, and how the lack of  a state coercive power -that could exercise an effective control- seems to have developed  very particular behavioural traits in the different actors.

Keywords : Abipones; Santa Fe; Frontier; War; XIXth Century.

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