Hasta el presente, las mujeres indigenas no figuraban en la historia. En los partes militares, se las mencionaba como un vago conjunto de estrafalarias o complacientes. Las cronicas de viajeros las hicieron protagonistas de ceremoniales y rutinas domesticas, pero en esa perspectiva predominaba el gusto por resaltar el exotismo de estas mujeres que peleaban, fumaban o estaban dispuestas a mantener una vida sexual libre. Este libro llama por su nombre a las mujeres indigenas que tuvieron un lugar destacado en una historia nunca escrita. Pascuala, tirana, codiciosa y rebelde, acosaba a los viajeros en busca de beneficios. La distinguida princesa tehuelche Margarita Foyel hospedo al viajero Musters durante su estadia y fue mas tarde objeto de observacion y estudio. Agustina Quilchamal traspuso las fronteras entre pasado y futuro al dejar testimonios vivos de la cultura patagonica. La cacica Maria Grande fue capaz de conducir el destino de su pueblo.Norma Sosa, especialista en culturas indigenas pampeano-patagonicas, presenta una serie de relatos biograficos de mujeres de caciques, lenguarazas, prisioneras o rehenes, chamanes y cacicas que sobresalieron por su valentia, inteligencia y fuerza vital.

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film. Affectual Erasure examines how Argentine cinema has represented Indigenous peoples throughout a period spanning roughly a century. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins interrelates her discussion of films with the ethnographic context of the Indigenous peoples represented and an analysis of the affective dimensions at play. These emotions underscore the inherent violence of generic conventions, as well as the continued political violence preventing Indigenous peoples from access to their ancestral lands and cultural mores. Tompkins explores a broad range of movies beginning in the silent period and includes both feature films and documentaries, underscored by archival and contemporary film stills. She traces the initial erotic projection, moving through melodrama to the conventions of the Western, into the 1960s focus on decolonization, superseded by allegorical renditions and the promise of self-expression in late twentieth-century documentaries. Each section includes an introduction to the sociohistorical events of the period and their impact on film production. Analyzed chronologically, the films evidence different stages in the projection of the hegemonic Argentine imaginary, which fails to envision the daily life of Indigenous peoples prior to conquest or in colonial times—and remains in denial of their existence in the present. “Cynthia Margarita Tompkins’s book is the most comprehensive analysis of the cinematic representations of Argentinean Indigenous peoples ever written. Her writing is lucid, insightful, grounded in a thorough familiarity with the films, and aware of the most current theoretical debates in film/theory and cultural studies. The book will surely become a breakthrough in its field.” — Santiago Juan-Navarro, author of Archival Reflections: Postmodern Fiction of the Americas (Self-Reflexivity, Historical Revisionism, Utopia)

Indice del ContenidoINTRODUCCIC"NMuseo Leleque, Patagonia.Carlo BenettonEl Museo Leleque. Rodolto CasamiquelaEl Museo y el Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas "El Hombre Patagonico y su Medio." Maria Teresa BoschinBreve resena biografica de Pablo S. Korschenewski. Diego LewinHistoria del complejo edilicio Museo Leleque.Maria Teresa BoschinPUEBLOS ORIGINARIOSPueblos originarios.Maria Teresa BoschinPueblos originarios. Arqueologia de la Patagonia Septentrional.Maria Teresa BoschinLa Coleccion Pablo Korschenewski. Analisis del material liticoCecilia Landini y Jorge MoiranoLas sociedades indigenas historicas de la Patagonia.Rodolfo CasamiquelaCreencias religiosas de los indigenas patagonicos.Rodolfo CasamiquelaEL CONTACTOEl contacto con el "otro."Marcelo Gavirati y Julio VezubBlancos e indios en Carmen de PatagonesSilvia RattoLa politica indigena en los toldos del Caleufu (1863-1885)Julio VezubDe Gales a Patagonia.Marcelo GaviratiLA SOCIEDAD PATAGC"NICALa sociedad patagonica.Marcelo Gavirati y Julio VezubCruzando la Cordillera con familia, animales y aviosDebora Finkelstein y Maria Martha Novella"Punta de boliches." Inmigracion libanesa, poblamiento y redes comerciales en la Patagonia.Maria Teresa Boschin y Julio VezubDel "Lejano Oeste" norteamericano al "Lejano Sur" argentino. Inmigracion norteamericana en laPatagonia.Marcelo GaviratiDebates pedagogicos y control escolar a traves de los informes anuales de una escuela de laPatagonia (1919-1924).Lea Fernanda VezubLos ferrocarriles patagonicos.Diego LewinBibliografia. Cndice de autores

The Spanish conquerors who explored the southern cone of South America reported back to Europe that the region was empty of human inhabitants. In truth, however, the large area supported a thriving, albeit low-density, population of foragers. Those foragers—the Mapuche, Tehuelche, Rankuelche, and Fueguian peoples—are the subject of this volume, which presents archaeological and ethnographic studies of their past. The southern cone of South America was one of the last regions to be colonized on earth. When the Spanish Royal Crown experienced difficulties expanding its colonial frontiers to include these lands, the area became known as a vast wildnerness at the very edge of the civilized world. As a result, the native peoples who did indeed inhabit the area were marginalized and as time passed the significance of their historical experience was ignored. This compilation of research by noted scholars of the region investigates the past of peoples largely neglected by the historical accounts of their conquerors. The history of the native peoples of Pampa, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego is a vital aspect of the region's past. Their historical knowledge and experience play a vital role in the struggle of a people to maintain a sense of cultural difference in an ever-changing world.