Debates y reflexiones sobre la preexistencia mapuche tehuelche: sentidos de permanencia y continuidad en la noción de territorialidad

Abstract

Mapuche/Tehuelche indigenous Peoples in the Province of Chubut (Argentina) have to demonstrate their preexistence to the national state in different judicial processes involving land possession. Significantly they have todo it following definitions of territoriality imposed by power mechanisms. In recent years, these hegemonic definitions have been questioned by scholar and indigenous militancy discourses. This article analyzes two key concepts around this debate: the persistence in the place and the lineage‘s continuity, with the aim to extend frames of interpretation from which we think practices and ideologies related to territoriality.