Paper power and the power of paper
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/hist.2023.271.12Abstract
The article examines the official appointment of indigenous “captains” that various white authorities (missionaries, prefects, corregidores and landowners) handed over to the Chiriguano and then to Toba and Wichí leaders of the Chaco region during the 19th century. While local authorities sought to buy submission and loyalty through paper titles of no real value, the Chiriguanos managed to turn the power of these titles to their advantage and thus the Chacoan peoples ended up privileging the power of paper. In their own way, the native groups took possession of a powerful tool to deal with the white man’s world.
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