BETWEEN POLITICAL TYPOLOGIES AND SOCIAL PROCESSES: ELEMENTS FOR THE SITUATION ANALYSIS OF INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP IN A COLONIAL BORDER

• Autor(a) principal: Wilde, Guillermo
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/26266
• topic: Liderazgo indígena; Cabildos; Guaraníes; Reducciones jesuíticas; Indigenous leadership; Cabildos; Guaraní; Jesuit reducciones

This article proposes a model of analysis of indigenous leadership based on the reconstruction of social situations. Taking as a case the context of Jesuit *reducciones* of Guarani, the article analyses the transformations of native power over the long-term. The fi rst part describes the formation of a new political organization emphasizing the relations between mission ethnogenesis and the institution of political fi gures of indigenous leaders - the “caciques” and “cabildantes”- that participated of mission government. The second part analyzes the participation of indigenous leaders in three critical situations of the history of reducciones: the Guarani war, the Jesuits’ expulsion and the post-jesuit period. In a broader framework of rearrangements of the political and institutional map of the reducciones and the Colonial State, each of these situations constitutes a complex context in which power relations are reconfi gured and native agency shaped.