El sistema judicial indígena como expresión de complejidad política (Pampas y Patagonia norte, mediados del siglo xix)
Indian judicial system as an expression of political complexity (Pampas and Northern Patagonia, mid-19th century). The kind of political organizations existing within the Indian societies inhabiting the region Pampas, North-Patagonia and Araucanía, especially during the 18th and 19th centuries, has...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/11864 |
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| Summary: | Indian judicial system as an expression of political complexity (Pampas and Northern Patagonia, mid-19th century). The kind of political organizations existing within the Indian societies inhabiting the region Pampas, North-Patagonia and Araucanía, especially during the 18th and 19th centuries, has been the subject of a long debate during the last twenty years. This article aims to make a contribution to that discussion, in trying to demonstrate, through sources corresponding to different native groups of the area, that, since the second decade of the 19th century, a tendency towards political centralization can be perceived, which will result in the emergence of polities of the kind of chieftaincies (in the sense stated by Robert Carneiro, consisting in organizations that have a permanent centralized leadership above other levels). In order to demonstrate it we will concentrate on a feature which can be taken for diagnostic: the existence, in judicial issues, of several decisional levels among which included the main cacique of the group as the last instance. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |