Photography of Capuchins and Anglicans at the beginning of the 20th century: the school as an instrument of Christianization and Chileanization

Abstract

This paper tries to show the intervention actions carried out by the catholic and anglican churches towards the mapuche people at the end of the XIX century and the beginnings of the XXth . With this goal in mind we are going to analyze the role played by the missons and their strategies of intervention towards the indigenous communities, the adaptation-resistance dynamics offered by the mapuches during the process. We will pursue our goal resting essentially on photographic material . We have a corpus of photopraphs about the capuchin missons settled in the Araucanía region and also about the anglican missons within the same territory. Complementary, we will also consider written sources which will facilitate us doing a more complete and complex reading of the role played by those religious institutions.