Abstract

DIEGO, Escolar. The “last caciques” of Cuyo. Lands, politics and indigenous memories in Creole Argentina (Mogna, XVII-XI centuries). Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.2, pp.215-230. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/0.31048/1852.4826.v13.n2.27766.

Abstract As part of a secular “extinction narrative”, the historiography took for granted the disappearance of the Indians in Cuyo in the early colonial period, either because of their physical extinction or, contradictorily, due to miscegenation, acculturation or social and political restructuring. There is evidence on the contrary, that the indigenous experience in the region was much more persistent, and articulated around the defense of territories, political autonomy, and the making of a collective memory of their aboriginality and resistance in the colonial process. One of the least explored keys to this dynamic was the indigenous leadership including the reformulation and reinforcement of some chieftains. As part of a reconstruction of the indigenous political history of the Cuyo region, between the end of the Hispanic period and the consolidation of the Argentine national state, I will reconstruct the struggles sustained by the Mogna chiefs, the Alcanis, between the beginning of the 18th century and early 19th century.

Keywords : Mogna; Cuyo; Late colonial Caciques; Indigenous territories; Political memories.

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