Abstract

COMBES, Isabelle. Etnohistoria, etnocidio y etnogénesis en la frontera: la trayectoria de los itatines. Mem. am. [online]. 2017, vol.25, n.2, pp.11-28. ISSN 1851-3751.

The current Kaiowás, Paĩ-tavyterã and Guarayos from Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia descend from the ancient Itatines. This paper examines the Itatín universe, formerly linked to the Pantanal region and setled at present at both margins of the Paraguay River. This block disintegrated during the 16th and 18th centuries due to colonial pressures -bandeiras, missions, setlers- and the action of other indigenous groups such as the Mbayá. These pressures transformed the internal dynamics of the Itatines, who fnally stopped being a unifed ethnic group. Therefore ethnocide preceded the ethnogenesis of three current societies. The ethnohistory of this process of formation and reconfguration of ethnic groups is hereby analysed.

Keywords : Itatines; Paraguay River; Pantanal; Ethnogenesis.

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