Thinking indigenous agency: contexts, actors and changing processes between guarani Indians (XVIIth. C.)

• Autor: Perusset, Macarena
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/13093
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/13093
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Guaraní Indians; intermediaries; South American low lands; reducciones de indios; guaraníes; intermediarios; tierras bajas

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 thecolonial society.