Movement, location and experience. An approach to the oral history of the northern Nivaclé in the last seventy years

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to take into account the existence of an ethnic oral history linked to a political-institutional history. Two dimensions of analysis will be addressed, Local History and Big History; the scale of the first is restricted to the particular processes that limit the progressive sedentarization of the Nivaclé of the north, ancient hunter-gatherers with patterns of seasonal seminomadism, during the period 1930-1990. The second dimension has the scope of a referential context of various regional processes that affect the structuring of the indigenous societies of the central-western Chaco Boreal over the last 60 years; these processes will be grouped around milestones of great importance. Methodologically, a historical-recursive procedure will be applied in order to move from the microsocial context of Local History to the macrosocial context of Big History, and verify to what extent they affect each other.