Logics and conceptions about work, accumulation and welfare in the Guaraní Indian missions (17th and 18th centuries)

• Autor(a) principal: Quarleri, Lía
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/26264
• topic: Misiones guaraníes; Economía indígena; Río de la Plata; Missions Guarani; Indigenous economy; Rio de la Plata

In this study seeks to show how were imposing in the missions of Guarani Indians a restructuring in the everyday practices of production, holding and movement of resources in intimate relationship with the European conceptions of work, productivity and well-being. It seeks to analyze the confi guration of three models, the fi rst of them centered on the opposition “desierto-abundancia”, as a variable in the Jesuit period; the second is focalize on the change of an economy of reciprocity to the of an exchange of goods controlled under the reduction system and the latter in the contrast between the Community system and the regime of economic freedom, in the last decades of the colonial Government. The speeches of early chroniclers, Jesuits and offi cials Bourbon, will be the bases of this work, highlighting the tensions, transformations and also strategic responses of the Guarani families.