Representaciones gráficas del Estado en formación

la tierra y los indígenas en la cartografía territorial argentina durante el siglo XIX

Abstract

The frontier with indigenous territories constitutes a resource of land
available for colonization and production. The land surveying provided
effective control over these uncharted territories. In the second half of the
nineteenth century, two central arguments intersect the State building:
how to privatize public land was subdivided and what was done with the
Indians who occupied it. In this paper, it will be drawn an overview on the
evolution of registering process in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina),
favored by the development of specific state knowledge, articulated
with cartographic representations of the territory. On these axes, it will
emphasize two issues: regular forms present in the registering and graphic
representation of the indigenous presence in the making of nineteenth
century maps.