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Tourism is a social activity and as such generates impacts. In some cases it can be an ally for the preservation of culture, but in other cases it can cause important changes in the culture of the people, especially when it is carried out in an unplanned manner. This paper describes the changes in the cultural expressions of the Pampa Michi Native Community that were exposed to tourism between 1998 and 2019. The study is conducted from a qualitative approach and narrative design; for this purpose, semi-structured interviews and life histories were used as instruments for data collection. According to the results, the cultural expressions of the community have changed and now show new dances such as the pandilla or anaconda, as well as new designs and colors in their typical clothing, and new products and materials in their handicrafts. In conclusion, the cultural expressions of the community that were exposed to the tourist activity changed since the beginning of tourism in the locality in 1998, until 2019, the year of the beginning of the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, transformations in the rural sector set out challenges to think the current dynamics that underlies it; among other things, related to the production model that has been defined, to the processes that different stakeholders directly related to the activity have gone through, and to the socio-economic dynamics linked to the rural sector that unfold and their impact on local spaces. This paper reflects on what has happened in rural Argentina, particularly in the Pampas Region, in relation to these problems. The paper starts by considering some transformation processes that have taken place in the rural sector at a global level to analyse, then, the dominant trends of the rural sector in the Pampas region that allow us to affirm that a new model of agricultural development has been introduced. On the basis of various antecedents, the paper will then present a conceptual proposal to address the problem of the territorial dynamics of the rural actors, the economic aspects and their incidence on local spaces. This dynamics has not been studied specifically from this perspective, and emphasizes the economic-productive elements implied in the constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of territories, resorting to the notion of capital circulation of the rural actors which constitutes a relevant point to understand the processes that emerge today in agricultural development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to show convergent processes and existing contradictions in rural areas (RA) in the southeast of the Argentinean Pampas in order to interpret and explain the different trajectories (according to contexts of time and space) that the actors follow in order to join a multi-scale environment that is both exclusive and changing. The study was carried out by means of methodological triangulation. Part of the results show that hegemonic dynamics take control over natural resources and delocalise local connections in order to favour foreign ones. Under this scheme, socio-territorial conflicts arise in the form of the exclusion of actors from territories and institutional decay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Argentina, some works imply, as an unavoidable process, the disappearance of the rural towns, mainly in the "Pampa" region. Although this statement is true, it does not mean that the tendency is unambiguous; on the contrary, differentiated demographic dynamics of rural towns can be identified, which are strongly linked to the characteristics of production systems and the possibilities of non - agrarian jobs, with a combination of incomes and a seasonal / temporary working mobility. Within the framework of this discussion about the rural world, the need to understand the processes of change that are taking place emerges, which rescues the social, cultural and production realities of the rural communities. Therefore, this paper aims at understanding the changes that are affecting the towns and rural population in an extensive "rionegrino" territory: "La Linea Sur" (The South Line). Through the assessment of case studies, the differentiating tendencies are analysed in order to prove the growth or decline of towns, the development of pluri - activity forms of development and their connection with de - agriculturization processes of the rural world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, transformations of internal links within the indigenous political field are explored, focusing on the last decades of the frontier. This period, in which the state progresses towards its political unification and institutional consolidation, state policies regarding Indian people show a more unified profile and aim to create the conditions necessary for the frontiers advance. The peace treaties policy, extended to almost the whole indigenous map, will be one of the devices through the state will attempt to canalize and to order its relations with different chiefs and groups. Our interest attempts to identify the probable conditionings and influences of this policy on the indigenous population at the conformation, strengthening and weakening of their political alliances. We intend specifically to reconstruct-within this context-the process of the Calfucurá's leadership, to identify the impact of state interventions over the extent of his political summoning capacity during this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relationships between missionaries (either Franciscan and Salesian) and Indian groups who survived after the military campaigns of the late 1870's in the Pampas. It focuses especially on the role played by these missionaries in the integration of Indians into the Argentine 'nation' and in the 'Territorios Nacionales', performed through--among others--four kinds of tasks: a) registering births, deaths and marriages in collaboration with a poorly developed state, b) educating the main chiefs. sons and daughters in La Inmaculada school, away from their families, c) insisting on their abandoning of previous cultural patterns (such as polygamic matrimony), and d) promoting the Indian's identification with the "nation" in as many instances as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]