Abstract

INSAUSTI, Joaquin García. VOLVER A LAS EXEQUIAS DE PAINE GÜOR: ANÁLISIS SOCIOCULTURAL DEL KALKUTUN O AGRESIÓN MÁGICA ENTRE LOS RANKÜLCHE DE MEDIADOS DEL SIGLO XIX. Relaciones [online]. 2019, vol.44, n.1, pp.1-8. ISSN 0325-2221.

According to Santiago Avendaño’s account, as part of the funeral of rankülche’s chief Paine-Güor, thirty-three women were executed because they were witches or widows. In a groundbreaking analysis, Alberto Rex González interpreted the sacrifice of one of the chief’s widows as a case of suttee, an indicator of the political organization level achieved by the pampean indigenous societies. In this paper we intend to re-read these events to clarify the causes that could explain the mass murder of witches, which according to Gonzalez only had a ritual meaning as part of the funeral. To this end, we conceptualize the native notions about magical aggression in order to account for the senses and social obligations involved in the specific context of 1840’s rankülche society, and also examine the only analogous case of large-scale execution of witches recorded in the pampean region.

Keywords : witchcraft - sorcery - witch hunt - rankülche - pampean indigenous people.

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