Alianzas y estrategias de los líderes indígenas abipones en un espacio fronterizo colonial (Chaco, siglo XVIII)

Abstract

The present article analyzes the multiple relations established between Abipones leaders with the hispanocriolla society, taken the Jesuitical missions founded during the 18th century in southern Chaco as space-temporal cut out. The reductions worked as complex spaces that condensed various interests and combined the interaction of several social subjects where indigenous unfolded leaders economical and political strategies to face up to colonial subjection and to increase their prestige and authority. From the analysis of the relations established by the Abipones groups against this background, we identified and described three strategies that allowed the indigenous leaders to maintain their autonomy and to increase their own authority.