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Etnografía de un francés en la Araucanía, 1854

Barros, Alonso (2007) Etnografía de un francés en la Araucanía, 1854. Revista de Ciencias Sociales (19). pp. 71-93. ISSN 0034-7817

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Abstract

The french traveler-agronomist Henri Delaporte describes a dark period in chilean-mapuche history, during which multiple alliances were made and undone between indigenous and chilean factions that were simultaneously consolidating the project of the Portalian State around the interoligarchic elite of Chile´s North, Center and South. Observing the state of some of the alliances that took place after de Crucist or Southern Rebellion, we see that lands on the riverbanks of the Nacimiento were in posession of the Prieto, Pinto, Bulnes, Cruz and Saavedra families, all directly involved in the genocide of the mapouceh that took place a few years later. Delaporte confirms that land was what moved chileans to physically invade the Araucanía. His views illustrate de structuring role of racism in the chilean ‘Far-South’ and its contribution to national identity, and us invite to rethink the nineteenth-century expansion of the chilean state in the light of the international context of colonial wars.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.revistacienciasociales.cl/index.html
Additional Information: © 2007 Universidad Arturo Prat
Divisions: Anthropology
Subjects: F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General)
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Date Deposited: 29 Sep 2010 17:53
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 13:29
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/29517

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