Article
Spanish
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Abstract
Summary: This article addresses, from a linguistic history approach, the studies on the Mapuzungun undertaken in the current Argentine Republic, in a temporal axis running from 1885 — the end of the so-called ‘desert campaign’ — to 1945. The apparent shortage of related work is analysed, based on references from the literature summarising the indigenous languages of the country that took place in those years, and an analysis of different types of sources describes the main approaches taken by the time in the production of two groups of research: actors integrated into the Plata Museum and territorial intellectuals in the patagonian area. This makes it possible to see how the study of documentary evidence based on assessment as references to contemporary jesuitas and transanne materials, and the empirical analysis of field data, was favoured as an alternative.