«Seguros de no verse con necesidad de bastimentos»: violencia interétnica y manejo de recursos silvestres y domésticos en Tierras de los Pehuenches (Aluminé, siglo XVII)

Abstract

In this article, the effects that the interethnic conflict had on the activities of the native population settled on the land of the Pehuenches (basins of the Agrio and Aluminé rivers, territory of the province of Neuquén, Argentina, at the present time) during the 17th century, are considered. In an atmosphere of violence and in the frame of the constitution of a tribal zone, one can find the settlement of a war economy and a variation of the patterns of residence and mobility, translated into strategies of withdrawing and hiding people and resources –war of the silos– combining the withdrawal of the population to positions that were difficult of access so that it would be out of reach of the hispanic campeadas and malocas, with a greater emphasis on the exploitation of vegetal and animal wild resources.