Concentrar para producir y disciplinar. Misiones religiosas y reducciones estatales en la región chaqueña en el siglo XX

Abstract

In this article we analyze two projects of concentration and subjugation of indigenous peoples, the state reductions and the religious missions, developed in the Chaco region in the first half of the 20th century. We reconstruct its trajectory and characterize its operation, focusing on the ways of creating a trained labour force for the development of different forms of work typical of capitalism. For this, we approach secondary and primary materials produced in ethnographic approaches. Our argument is that the production of this labour force contained not only economic mechanisms, it had as its objective control over the bodies in the work spaces and the civilization and Argentineization of subjectivities, it was associated with the privatization of the territories and it included moments of repression of the protest. In all cases, these are expressions typical of the process of indigenous genocide and the original accumulation of capital.