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In this article we analyze the early process of incorporation of reading and writing in Mapuche society in the last third of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th century. The possible mechanisms used to acquire this new technology are presented, while at the same time indigenous peoples ensured the services of effective and loyal cultural mediators, and their results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this work, 21 new or interesting records for the flora of Albacete and Granada are listed, mainly belonging to Sub-baetic Mountains and surrounding areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the interethnic relationships between indigenous groups along the border region of Chile and Río de la Plata in South America during the 18th century. The authors comment on the impact of Spanish colonial government on these ethnic relations and describe the difficulties in communication between the Spanish authorities and the native groups. The understanding of the Mapuche indigenous language, referred to as mapu dungum, in the years since Spanish colonization is also examined.

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Since the beginning of European expansion, the colonial armies -- by themselves or vicariously -- 'hunted' heads, a practice which often converged with the natives'. In the particular case of Araucania and the pampas, from the 16th century on two different cultural traditions related to the manipulation of the enemy's body converged. On one side, the European, in which decapitation and even dismemberment confirmed the Royal power to unleash a rigorous punishment: a crime which constituted a threat against Royal sovereignty and though against the order and stability of the Kingdom was punished by the brutal laceration and public quartering of the convict, inverting in that way the committed atrocity. On the other side, the Reche and other Indian nations in the panaraucana area operated as well with the massacred body of the enemy, a custom integrated to an extensive tradition which was part of a warrior complex intended to provide the means for the symbolic reproduction of the whole social body. In this article that double recurrence which produced a mixture of changing meanings, extended in the region until the 19th century, is examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Leu Mapu Indigenous Peoples become visible in different documentation produced from 1780 on the Buenos Aires border and later in the diaries of Justo Molina y Vasconcelos, referring to their journeys through the pampas in 1804 and 1805. These Indigenous Peoples made up the populations called ranqueles as a whole, but they stood out not only because of their location near Salinas Grandes but also because of their singular adaptation to the dune chains existing in the eastern-southerneastern area of the present-day province of La Pampa, and because of the more intense relation they had with such border. Their participation in the surge of violence that took place in the 1770's decade and beginning of the following allows us to better understand the causes of that process and increases the available knowledge of the complex intergroup and interethnic relations of that time and of the conditions of occupation of a key area in the history of Indigenous Societies: the transitional area that separates the woods of caldenes (Prosopis caldenia) from the eastern herbaceous plain, in the vicinities of the salt deposit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a list of 29 species of novel flora for Albacete province, some of them of high biogeographical interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]