Among the Poor, the Poorest. For a Review on the Studies on the Chiquitania (Eastern Bolivia)

Authors

  • Cecilia Martínez CONICET - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2018.145527

Keywords:

Chiquitos, Chiquitanos, South America Lowlands, Americanist Studies, Alterity, Borders

Abstract

In this article, we identify the historical, political, and academic basis of the scarcity of research focused on Chiquitos, as well as of the image associated with the Jesuit heritage. We start comparing Chiquitos with other parts of the lowlands of Bolivia, studies on Jesuit missions, and Bolivianist social history and Andean ethnohistory. Then, we propose an alternative reading on those elements that structured the social life of their inhabitants, based on the examination of late colonial evidence (1768-1809). For that, the weight of kinship on definition of significant social units among the indigenous people of Chiquitos, the socio-political, cultural, and demographic effects of being a marginal and frontier province, and Amerindian forms of assimilation of alterity are considered.

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Published

2018-04-27

Issue

Vol. 61 No. 1 (2018)

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How to Cite

Martínez, C. (2018). Among the Poor, the Poorest. For a Review on the Studies on the Chiquitania (Eastern Bolivia). Revista De Antropologia, 61(1), 298-328. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2018.145527