Borders, Spaces and Dangers in an indigenous evangelical Mission in the Argentinian Chaco (1935-1962).
Keywords:
Argentinian Chaco, Indigenous, Territory, Protestant Missions, Social StigmataAbstract
This article presents an anthropological analysis of the impacts of protestant missions in the territorial changes of indigenous peoples of the Argentine Gran Chaco. As a case study, it explores the dynamics of the Scandinavian Pentecostal Mission, located in 1920 in the town of Embarcación (Salta). The work investigates the creation of a multiethnic mission during the last years of 1930 decade, observing the foundation and its master narratives and the progressive stigmatization process from the «white» settlers of the town to the «Indian camp». This last event involved a spatial relocation and a social fragmentation of the original mission in 1962. The empirical data arise from ethnographic interviews and historical documents from Scandinavian and Mennonite missions
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