Corpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana (Jul 2017)
El expediente de la sublevación de los pampas en Santa Ana (1888, Misiones, Argentina)
Abstract
This article retrieves and offers a critical reading of the file of the "Sumario levantado con motivo de la sublevación i fuga de los indios pampas que trabajaban en el establecimiento del Señor General Don Rudecindo [Roca]", dated June 24th, 1888, which was signed by José Mujica, judge of peace of Santa Ana (Misiones), and is catalogued in the General Archives of the Governorate of Posadas. The so-called “Pampas’ uprising”, or “Pampas’ malón", was an exceptional event in the context of the subjugation of Pampa and North-Patagonia peoples, the practice of dismembering and sharing out defeated groups by the state for the benefit of private owners, and the different possibilities of resistance to it. Several circumstances converged in this case so that the collective agency managed to overturn the constraints of the usually enormous disparity of physical, material and symbolic resources.
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