The encounter between Native American peoples and Europeans and their descendants has marked the history of every nation in the Americas, both North and South. Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, published in Argentina in 1870, is one of very few works in American letters that presents a vivid, firsthand account of a noncombative encounter between Native American and European civilizations. This volume is the first English translation of Mansilla's classic work. Long noted for its humor, adventurousness, and narrative ingenuity, the book offers penetrating insights into fundamental issues of "civilization and barbarism," immigration, ethnic and racial diversity, and land ownership and tenancy.
 Mansilla alone among his contemporaries espoused open dialogue as the best approach to the "Indian problem." Although the peace accord he sought to enact with the Ranquels was summarily disregarded by the Argentine government, which slowly gravitated towards a policy of ethnic cleansing and expropriation of Indian lands, the Expedition does narrate a rehearsal for a reconciliation that in the end never took place.

An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians: Excursion a los indios ranqueles (Texas Pan American Series)

History

Mansilla, Lucio V.

Americas

University of Texas Press

Lucio V. Mansilla (1831–1913), the widely traveled and cultured scion of a famous family, was a colonel in the Argentine army when he undertook an “excursion” to the Argentine interior in 1870 to visit natives in areas then largely unknown. Mansilla’s uncle, dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, dominated most of Argentina from 1829 to 1852 and had led successful military expeditions against the frontier Indians in 1852. Mansilla set out for a reconnaissance into the tense border region just after a peace treaty had been signed with the Indians. Over the course of this expedition, Mansilla sent to a friend in the capital a series of letters which were then serially published in a leading Buenos Aires newspaper. His careful observations offer valuable ethnographic data, as Argentina’s Indians were almost totally extinguished or assimilated within a few generations of Mansilla’s expedition. Furthermore, his account, which contains thoughtful perspectives on the “Indian question” and the dichotomy of civilization and barbarism, stands as a lasting contribution to Argentine and Spanish-American literature. Mansilla’s work both in this account and elsewhere made him a leading figure in the Argentina “Generation of 1880,” a group crucial in the development of Argentine literary and intellectual life.

A Visit to the Ranquel Indians

Biographies & Memoirs

University Of Nebraska Press

A Visit to the Ranquel Indians (Spanish Edition)

Dedicatoria. Aspiraciones de un tourist. Los gustos con el tiempo. Por qué se pelea un padre con un hijo. Quiénes son los ranqueles. Un tratado internacional con los indios. Teoría de los extremos. Dónde están las fronteras de Córdoba y campos entre los ríos Cuarto y Quinto. De dónde parte el camino del Cuero.

Una excursion a los Indios ranqueles (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Una excursión a los indios ranqueles (Spanish Edition)

This Argentine literary classic, one of the most subtle and perceptive commentaries ever written about life on the frontier, appeared in print initially in serial form. Later published as a book, Una excursión a los indios ranqueles constitutes one of the few literary works that presents a vivid and testimonial account of a peaceful encounter between the native inhabitants of the South and those who consider themselves to be representatives of European civilization and of the Argentina of the future. Esteemed for its humor and narrative originality, Lucio V. Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios ranqueles is comparable to Sarmiento's Facundo and the two complement each other. Mansilla's book offers penetrating observations about the fundamental aspects of the confrontation between "civilization and barbarism," as well as about immigration, racial and ethnic diversity, private property ownership and land tenure. Juan Manuel de Rosas had dominated a large part of the country between 1829 and 1852 and despite having led successful expeditions against the indigenous frontier populations, the situation of the "Indian question" after his fall from power was a problematic one. In 1869, after a peace treaty was signed, Mansilla was sent to the tense frontier zone on a fact-finding mission. Colonel Mansilla, an experienced and cultured aristocrat, as well as a nephew of Rosas' (which he wrote "Rozas), was an exception in his era for his advocacy of an open dialogue as the best solution for the "Indian problem." Eventually the peaceful treaty he sought with the Ranqueles was rejected by the government, which gradually established policies of ethnic cleansing and land expropriation Mansilla, with subtle humor, titled his expedition an "excursion," elegantly minimizing the dangers it entailed and avoiding any allusion to his disobedience to orders. During the trip Mansilla wrote a series of letters to a friend which were later published in La Tribuna of Buenos Aires. His detailed observations offer, besides a sharp-eyed and amusing commentary, quantities of ethnographic information, particularly valuable since shortly after that the majority of indigenous people in the south of Argentina were exterminated or assimilated. This book, as well as his participation in political and social events, established Lucio V. Mansilla as one of the dominating figures of the "Generation of 1880," which is so important in the literary and intellectual development of modern Argentina. This edition, by Saul Sosnowski, is an updated version of the text published by Biblioteca Ayacucho in 1984, to which he has added many very useful footnotes that aid in fuller comprehension of the text.

Una Excursion a Los Indios Ranqueles (Spanish Edition)

Travel

Stockcero

Entre la vasta obra de Lucio V. Mansilla, estas dos piezas teatrales (Atar-Gull y Una tía) son apenas mencionadas por los biógrafos y especialistas en crítica teatral. Si la primera es referida en forma fugaz, la segunda a menudo ni siquiera es señalada. De Atar-Gull disponemos de una segunda edición, hecha en, realizada por el Instituto de Literatura Argentina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Una tía, en cambio, ni siquiera tuvo el privilegio de contar con una reedición para especialistas. La presente edición de las dos obras teatrales busca enmendar dicha laguna editorial, entregando al público por primera vez desde 1864 ambas piezas dramáticas, acompañadas por un minucioso estudio preliminar.

Atar-gull o una venganza africana / Una tía (Spanish Edition)

Dramas & Plays

Letras y pensamientos en el bicentenario

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