Abstract

MARTINELLI, María Laura. Construcción estatal e “indios amigos”: el acceso a la tierra de la tribu de Ancalao en el enclave fronterizo de Bahía Blanca. Mem. am. [online]. 2017, vol.25, n.1, pp.97-114. ISSN 1851-3751.

This paper hypothesis is that public land distribution as private property in Buenos Aires frontier during the decade of 1860 was linked to the construction of an idea of State, in terms of Abrams (2000 [1988]). From this perspective, by means of regulations and titles, state authorities sought to monopolize legitimate criteria of occupying, accessing and distributing land as well as to impose a conception of space and territory different from the creole and indigenous versions that became marginal. The paper aims to examine how Ancalao’s tribe of “indios amigos” gained access to land property in order to analyze how and in which ways this idea of State had an impact over the organization of space of these indigenous people in Bahía Blanca. Finally, it considers the efects that the access to land might have had in the construction of Ancalao’s “tribe”.

Keywords : Indios amigos; Frontier; Bahía Blanca.

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