Abstract

GONZALEZ, YÉSSICA. Inland White Indians. Female Captivity in the Araucanía Frontier, 18^th and 19^th centuries. Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2016, vol.43, n.2, pp.185-214. ISSN 0120-2456.  https://doi.org/10.15446/achsc.v43n2.59076.

This article analyses the tension experienced by the contact groups in the Araucanía frontier in Chile in the colonial and post-colonial periods from the perspective of the study on captivity, especially of women. It is a qualitative study, based on the re-reading of primary sources and archives, using the theoretical and methodological guidelines of frontier and gender history. Captivity is characterized as a transversal practice on the contact groups, where the body and image of the captive, as a symbol of defeat, was the crucible of the mixing of blood, culture and identities and the object of political instrumentalization according to its interests and the transformation of the centuries covered.

Keywords : (Author) feminine captivity; power; mestization; (Thesaurus) frontier; ethnic conflict; colonialism.

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