Indios, Inmigrantes y Criollos en el Nordeste Santafesino (1860-1890): Un caso de violencia en una sociedad de frontera

this work intends to explain the role violence played in specific interactions and conflicts between indians, immigrants and criollos without resorting to simple victim-exploiter categories, or by glorifying or demonizing any of the groups in struggle. with this purpose in mind it intends to find out the following: the strategies that the rival groups developed to survive and communicate between themselves; the impact of the frontier situation on indian societies that were to a large extent outside the direct control of the authorities; the meaning that the frontier had for the whites, specially the immigrants, and the alternatives it opened for the indians; the bases on which coexistence was established and the role of the state in those circumstances; the influence of the legacy of previous contacts and of the immigrant's previous experiences, and how the lack of a state coercive power -that could exercise an effective control- seems to have developed very particular behavioural traits in the different actors.