... of the Guaycurú, noting that a number of Sweet’s arguments are not factually or interpretively applicable to his case. This raises the question of Guaycurúan exceptionalism in reference, for example, to the relatively late periodization of these missions and the physical mobility of their neophytes. Saeger does...

... Frau, Las poblaciones indígenas , p. 316. 54 Paucke, Hacia allá , II, 21, 39. Quarantine of the Chaco reductions was impossible. Too many people, Guaycuruans and Spanish and Portuguese traders, sought the mutually beneficial exchange of cattle hides and horses on the hoof for Spanish artifacts...

... frontier. To the south, the Chilean general José Miguel Carrera joined with the Ranquel Indians and Pampas groups to raid Salto and Melincué in 1820. To the north, the Chaco Guaycuruans attacked Santa Fe and Santiago del Estero in 1821. The newly independent Argentine provinces, dependent to a far...

... question period concluded a stimulating session. Saeger spoke of the influence of the missions on Guaycuruan beliefs, 1740-1800, and pointed to a gradual increase in Christian elements and practices between the first and third missionary generations. A countervailing factor to some extent...

... Saeger provided a detailed ethnographic description of Guaycuruan Indians that analyzed factors, especially age and gender variables, that influenced their responses to Spanish attempts to incorporate them. Kristine Jones (independent scholar, formerly associated with the Pontificia Universidad Católica...