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FRADKIN, Raúl  y  RATTO, Silvia. Deserters, Bandits, and Indians on the Buenos Aires Border, 1815-1819. Secuencia [online]. 2009, n.75, pp.11-41. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i75.1087.

Although the link between military desertion and the increase in banditry is not a novel topic in historiography, this analysis has rarely included a third vector that is crucial to the consideration of border areas: its links with indigenous groups that had not been subjugated. The incorporation of this element allows to question the accounts of established rural bandits under the premise of a homogeneous peasant culture, as well as those depicting it as an expression of political banditry displayed by members or allies of elitist factions. Few researchers in Argentina have realized the links between bandits' actions and non­subjugated indigenous groups. This article seeks to explore this issue while focusing on a specific context: the rural area of Buenos Aires in the late 1810s.

Palabras llave : Banditry; desertion; inter­ethnic conflicts; border; militarization.

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