Abstract

PERUSSET, Macarena. Thinking indigenous agency: contexts, actors and changing processes between guarani Indians (XVII^th. C.). Anthropologica [online]. 2015, vol.33, n.34, pp.227-247. ISSN 0254-9212.

At the multiethnic and multicultural colonial Paraguay’s space, some people played a central role as intermediaries between different cultural traditions. Within this context, in the reducciones de indios emerged a new kind of actors who displayed a diversity of strategies in order to preserve indigenous welfare as self-profit. These were the guaraní leaders, a kind of cultural bridges as well as political and economic agents because of the daily practices they play in the colonial society.

Keywords : Guaraní Indians; intermediaries; South American low lands; reducciones de indios.

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