La pastoral rural en Formosa y el surgimiento de una pastoral aborigen (c.1960 – 1980)

Abstract

By 1960 in northeastern Argentina it began to generate a form of pastoral that proposed novel ways of accompaniment to peasant groups. This article seeks to analyze how these new forms where developed, making an emphasis in the province of Formosa. In the late sixties, that within pastoral peasant, began to take shape some initiatives specifically doomed to work with Indians. This occurred mainly in the western part of the great Argentine Chaco. Then, during the 1970s, the increased repression led to selective persecution on rural pastoral as a whole. Consequently, it was forced to reduce their levels of political radicalism and limit the accompaniment to processes of peasant organization. In this context, we postulate that the aboriginal pastoral served as a refuge for some secular and religious people who had been part of the peasant pastoral. The article shows that certain logics that once had aboriginal pastoral in the Chaco region can be explained by the continuities that it had with the peasant pastoral. But it suggests that these continuities were possible at the cost of some reduction in the levels of political confrontation and ideological radicalism of the pastoral work networks