Abstract

MAGANA MANCILLAS, Mario Alberto. Neófitos y soldados misionales: Identidades históricas en la región de la Frontera de la Baja California, 1769-1834. Culturales [online]. 2009, vol.5, n.9, pp.73-104. ISSN 2448-539X.

In the north of the peninsula between 1769 and 1834, the Mission Indians as both the military and their families were articulating a close relationship, with the socio-cultural intermediation of the missionaries. But to be diminishing the religious in the region, the linkages between Indians and Soldiers went closer, resulting in both specific demographic groups and collective identities. However, they always maintained a distinction between them often was not as marked as they perceived in the eyes of outsiders. This essay seeks to make a closer study of historical identities in social groups of the past, through historical analysis and the use of the concept of collective identities raised by Gilberto Giménez.

Keywords : historical identities; collective identities; regional history; colonial peopling.