A voyage through the history of the indigenous peoples of the colonial frontiers

Interview with Lidia R. Nacuzzi by Carina Lucaioli

Abstract

Lidia R. Nacuzzi is a prominent scholar in the field of Historical Anthropology, acknowledged for her valuable contributions to the study of the interethnic processes between indigenous groups considered insumisos and state officials in the Pampa and northern Patagonia frontiers during the colonial period. In this interview, she reflects upon the different facets of her academic work: the first approaches to a novel research topic and methodology; her academic consolidation in the Ethnohistory Division of the Institute of Anthropological Sciences of the School of Philosophy and Literatures (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and her current situation as a scholar and trainer of human resources. Thus, the interviewer Carina Lucaioli takes us on a journey through the main theoretical, thematic and methodological concerns to which her interviewee has devoted herself during most of her academic trajectory, entwining this voyage with references to the historical, political and institutional contexts that framed and guided her academic development.