El líder étnico, liderar y liderazgo. Los Yahatti, Lepin, Juan Manuel Cachul y Juan Catriel: hombres políticos en la frontera bonaerense

Abstract

Since it is assumed that contact between Hispanic-Creole and indigenous people was not only violent, and that it included daily life coexistence, exchanges and harmonic contact, it is possible to think and analyze these aspects as the relational context that exteriorized and required new leaders or mediators from each society. The region of present Buenos Aires province known as “frontera bonaerense”, from mid-eighteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century, will be the space-time frame to analyze four political men: the Yahatti, Lepin, Juan Manuel Cachul and Juan Catriel. This research tries to support nominative and significant elements about ethnic leadership. Therefore, we look forward to territorialize and historicize the ethnic leadership of these men in order to determinate to which extent is viable to speak about its transformations towards their followers by means of treating peace with state authorities. Taking everything into account, we try to set characters which allow us to build a descriptive and analytical enunciation about those leaders and their authority strategies.