Voices and views. Indian social agents in the legal framework. Buenos Aires city and countryside in the late colonial period

Abstract

This paper is concerned to examine the actions of Indian social network caught in the court, either as victims or suspected of a crime, in the campaign and Buenos Aires city in the late colonial period. The aim is to investigate the configuration and the settlement of disputes that involve indigenous, noting both its positioning as the judicial officers, clergy or individuals with certain power at the local level who are involved in these cases. This analysis facilitate the entry into to social interweaving of that time, providing keys to understand it, unveiling a diversity of voices and looks involved in the process of setting and prosecution of crimes