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Salvatore Ricardo D. Salvatore

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Publié par

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Date de parution

15 juillet 2003

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9780822384731

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

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A pioneering examination of the experiences of peasants and peons, or paysanos, in the Buenos Aires province during Juan Manuel de Rosas's regime (1829-1852), Wandering Paysanos is one of the first studies to consider Argentina's history from a subalternist perspective. The distinguished Argentine historian Ricardo D. Salvatore situates the paysanos as mobile job seekers within an expanding, competitive economy as he highlights the points of contention between the peasants and the state: questions of military service, patriotism, crime, and punishment. He argues that only through a reconstruction of the different subjectivities of paysanos-as workers, citizens, soldiers, and family members-can a new understanding of postindependence Argentina be achieved.Drawing extensively on judicial and military records, Salvatore reveals the state's files on individual prisoners and recruits to be surprisingly full of personal stories directly solicited from paysanos. While consistently attentive to the fragmented and mediated nature of these archival sources, he chronicles how peons and peasants spoke to power figures-judges, police officers, and military chiefs-about issues central to their lives and to the emerging nation. They described their families and their wanderings across the countryside in search of salaried work, memories and impressions of the civil wars, and involvement with the Federalist armies. Their lamentations about unpaid labor, disrespectful government officials, the meaning of poverty, and the dignity of work provide vital insights into the contested nature of the formation of the Argentine Confederation. Wandering Paysanos discloses a complex world until now obscured-that of rural Argentine subalterns confronting the state.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

15 juillet 2003

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822384731

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Wandering Paysanos s t a t e o r d e r a n d s u b a l t e r n e x p e r i e n c e

i n b u e n o s a i r e s d u r i n g t h e r o s a s e r a

r i c a r d o d . s a lva t o r e

Wandering Paysanos

Ricardo D. Salvatore

Wandering Paysanos

s tate order and s ubaltern experi ence

i n buenos ai res duri ng the ros as era

d u k e u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s

d u r h a m a n d l o n d o n 2 0 0 3

∫2003 Duke University Press

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Frontis art:Raimundo Monvoisin,

Gaucho federal—Buenos Aires,

oil on canvas, 1842.

Reproduced from B. del Carril,

Monumenta Iconográphica(1964).

Library of Congress Cataloging-

in-Publication Data appear on

the last printed page of

this book.

To my parents, Marica and Chili,

and to Laura

Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Tables and Illustrations xiii

Introduction 1

1. The Ways of the Market 25

2. Cash Nexus and Conﬂict 61

3. Provincianos’ Paths to Work 95

4. Class by Appearance 129

5. The Power of Laws 161

6. The Making of Crime 197

7. The Experience of Punishment 232

8. Regiments: Negotiation and Protest 262

9. Deserters’ Reasons 295

10. Memories of War 325

11. Rituals of Federalism 361

12. Subalterns and Progress 394

Conclusion 423

Notes 429

Glossary 493

References 497

Index 517

Acknowledgments

Various institutions and many people contributed to make this book possible. I started this project back in 1988–1989, during a year’s residence fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Prince-ton. The Institute’s seminars made me aware of the complexities of the interpretation of ‘‘social texts.’’ There, I began to readestanciaand criminal records from a new perspective, focusing on power relationships, the positionality of subjects, and the meaning of messages. During this time, I beneﬁted enormously from conversations with Albert Hirschmann, Lynn Hunt, Cli√ord Geertz, Greg Denning, Joan W. Scott, Gavin Wright, Mary Steedly, and Margaret Weir. New intersections between anthropology and history, together with poststructuralist modes of interpretation, greatly inﬂuenced the formulation of the questions I wanted to pose concerning the history of postindependence Buenos Aires province. In 1992–1993, thanks to an Advanced Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council, I was able to spend two years investigating archives in Buenos Aires and La Plata. Librarians and archivists at the Archivo General de la Nación, the Academia Nacional de Historia, the Archivo Histórico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, the Instituto Ravignani, and the Instituto Di Tella helped me ﬁnd my way through a maze of materials that would later constitute the textual corpus of my investiga-tion. Later, while trying to translate the ﬁrst ideas onto paper, a grant from the University of Buenos Aires allowed me to spend a year of productive interaction with Argentine colleagues. I recall with pleasure the discus-sions that ensued after seminars at the Instituto Ravignani and at the universities of Tandil, Luján, Mar del Plata, and Córdoba. I thank all those who made comments and suggestions, too many to mention by name. In 1993–1994 a year’s residence at the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University gave me the opportunity to draft a substantial part of the manu-script. The reader will easily recognize the inﬂuence of James C. Scott’s works in this book. Jim’s seminars were ﬁlled with a warm, convivial, and intellectually exciting atmosphere. This was a place where, despite unend-ing winter storms, I felt at home. The commentaries of my colleagues and friends Akhil Gupta, Prabhu Mohapatra, Stacy Pigg, Catherine LeGrand,

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