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In the aftermath of the 1929 capitalist crisis, Latin America experienced peasant rebellions and military dictatorships. This article explores the crisis of agrarian societies from two books published in 1935: Ta tempestad, by Flavio Herrera, and Agua, by José María Arguedas. I examine the spatiality of the agrarian cosmos and how each author uses inversed, prosopopoeia images, of a world in war. Also, I study the fundamental differences in the conceptualization of the Indian in plantations. Finally, I analyze the centrality of the racial wound in societies based on the agrarian violence of plantations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article problematizes the use of the conceptualization of 'Indian' in La Araucanía, Chile. Through a historical approach, the origins of the 'Indian' are discussed, as well as the causes and psychosocial consequences that this denomination has brought to indigenous subjects, mainly the Mapuche in Chile. The methodology is qualitative of documentary-descriptive type of scientific articles, they allow a historical understanding of the origins of the Indian concept and how it prevails in society. Content analysis is used in which the nuclei of explicit and latent sense and meaning that underlie the concept 'Indian' are identified. The results reveal that the deconstruction of the 'indian' would progressively eradicate practices of racism and discrimination against indigenous children, youth and adults. We conclude that the deconstruction of the "Indian" concept implies starting from the basis of the recognition of an intercultural epistemological pluralism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a perspective on the lives of indigenous women in the context of the European conquest and colonization of the Caribbean, specifically on the island of Hispaniola. It integrates ethnohistorical information, published primary sources, secondary sources and results of archaeological research. The text articulates a general vision, which summarizes scattered and sometimes little-known data, reflecting the action of dominance over women, the complexity of the female experience in this universe, and also their capacities to face change and transmit the indigenous cultural legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Defining in a single category the complex reality of the peoples who have always inhabited the American continent has been a multifaceted problem. The misunderstanding of the West, the lack of creativity when using words, the inconvenience and contradiction of some concepts and the construction of a history from a Eurocentric paradigm, have been some of the factors that have made the matter more complex. Of all of them, the category “Indian” seems to be the most appropriate, as long as it goes through a process of reconstruction and dignity. This paper tries to make a journey through this category from the cultural realities of the continent to propose a new reading of the Indian as the property of these ancestral and living peoples of our continent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the representations of the Araucanian world in Lucio V. Mansilla’s Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, a travel story published in Buenos Aires in 1870. Drawing on a discursive and argumentative approach, the article analyses and explores how, via the different ethos set out in the story, e.g. that of the ethnographer, the philologist, the politician, the soldier and the literary man; as well as through his description of the indigenous world, Mansilla tries to denounce the dichotomy barbarism-civilization. Based on his own experience with the Ranquele Indians, Mansilla establishes a series of analogies between the discursive interactions of the Ranqueles and the political modalities of the “civilized” world, that reveals a subtle understanding of all the language dimensions. In his description, which could be that of a contemporary discourse analyst, the Ranqueles are portrayed as being on par with any Argentinean politician. However, Mansilla’s discursive universe, which is that of a cultured and literate politician of his time, and the mixed audience he targets, result in a rather heterogeneous vision of the indigenous world whose impending extermination he is trying to prevent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the word indio and the concepts underlying it, in American documents from 1494 to 1905 written in Spanish. The paper examines the syntax, the semantics and the contexts in which indio appears, to shed light on the relationships between indio and other actors of the American society, like español, and to shed light on the conceptual changes along 400 years. The paper analyzes various independent syntactic and semantic variables; for instance, the general frequency of the word during four centuries, the textual genre in which indio preferably appears, the quantifi- cation, the individuation, and the semantic classes of verbs. In all variables, it is clear a strong social asymmetry for indio and the low social class status that indio had always in Spanish America. There are some important grammatical and conceptual changes in the 18th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Peruvian government enacted a new law granting consultation rights to indigenous peoples as a mechanism to enhance social inclusion in the country. The law generated debates about the criteria to identify indigenous population in the Andean region. Why does this law have problems granting consultation rights to Andean people? This paper aims to answer the question by reviewing historically the different Andean identities and analyzing the current international debate on indigenity. Our main argument is that the government in trying to apply the law is structuring a restrictive model that is hardly able to grasp the complexity and dynamism of Andean identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain written by Alexander Von Humboldt, this article analyzes the repercussions of this book in Mexican society throughout the nineteenth century. It strives to make an analysis of the works of Tadeo Ortiz de Ayala, Lucas Alamán and José María Luis Mora, showing their points of view about the relationship between the environment and the attributes of the Mexican population. As it is well known, the Political Essay resulted in the creation of a landscape that borders on myth when it considers that Mexico had an unrivaled wealth of natural resources. In the face of this fact, different Mexican authors like Tadeo Ortiz Ayala, a zealous follower of Humboldt, praised his book in different terms; others like Lucas Alamán and José María Luis Mora hesitated not only of the natural wealth of the country but also called into question the intellectual qualities of Mexicans derived from the geographical conditions of the national territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The New Laws of 1542, though they supposed a great milestone in the social Hispanic history, in the short term did not finish with the slavery of the American Indian. Is true that his treats with destiny Spain ralentizó in the second half of the century nevertheless, Indians continued coming to the markets peninsular slave holders to slant, fundamentally, from the port of Lisbon. In the medium term yes it changed the legal situation of these aborigines, happening from slaves to servants. In the same epoch the links became frequent between black and Indian slaves, denoting the existence of a social similar status for both etnias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the early colonial era, Spanish and creole writers from across Spanish America have alleged that drunkenness was a defining characteristic of indigenous culture. This essay offers an interpretation of that torrent of discourse. Through a comparison of nineteenth-century and colonial discussions of indigenous drinking the essay excavates the changing contours of the elite understanding of the 'drunken Indian', and considers the reasons for that figure's persistent vitality within the creole imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This report will analyze two subjects about the Andean intercultural philosophy. The first subject talks about the analysis of the possibility of a philosophical reflection on the existence of Andean thought in the context of the globalized world of our times. The second subject will talk about the Andean man, as subject of this new Andean intercultural philosophical paradigm in American Andes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In its Apologías y discursos de las conquistas occidentales Bernardo de Vargas Machuca pretends to justify the Spanish dominion on America taking support on Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. In its account it is possible to note a change in the notion of a Barbarian, which can be interpreted as an extension of the concept of "slavery by nature". From this point of view the Indian is conceived as someone who is submitted but who nevertheless tries to resist to an unwilled and imposed domination. Thus Vargas Machuca claims on this matter can be understood as a contribution to the philosophical understanding of the conception, during the Colonial time, of the Indian as well as of the indiano. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]