Resumen

MUNOZ, Roberto. From cotton to unemployment: The “indigenous population” in Nueva Pompeya, Chaco: 1970-2016. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2020, vol.41, n.88, pp.197-228.  Epub 28-Ago-2020. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/882020/aot3/munozr.

Misión Nueva Pompeya, located in the General Güemes department, in the province of Chaco, Argentina, is one of the oldest settlements in the region (early years of the 20th century). Currently, it is based on 20,000 hectares of community property in the name of an indigenous association and about 60% of its population is classified as belonging to the Wichí ethnic group. Are analyzed the transformations that have occurred during the last decades, in terms of the social reproduction of the inhabitants identified as indigenous in two historical moments: their situation in the 1970s-for which we count as an input the extensive field work conducted, at the request of the provincial government, by an interdisciplinary group of social scientists-, and the situation in recent decades, for which we will use our observations made in our fieldwork, interviews with key informants and secondary sources.

Palabras llave : Argentina; Chaco province; indigenous communities; social reproduction; community property.