Throughout the history of the Indigenous Community of Amaicha del Valle some authorities travelled to different places in order to represent the group for several reasons, the most important being "to secure the land". The voyages these leaders made not only marked and transformed them individually but also, and for several reasons, left their mark on the development of the community. From this framework, and through developing an interdisciplinary and long term analysis, the goal of this work is to rethink the travel experience as part of a repertoire of strategies aimed at the socio-ethnic reproduction of the community. For this purpose, we analyze the trips made by four community leaders in different historical contexts: the decades of 1800s, 1870s, 1990s and 2000s. Without neglecting the particularities of each moment, people and travels, we focus on those aspects that allow us to draw similarities between travelers and their trips along the temporal range of study. We consider the characteristics and trajectories of the ethnic leaders, the impact that their voyages had in terms of legitimacy and the personal construction of power, as well as the material and symbolic resources they searched for and obtained from those trips, both at the community and individual level.

Throughout the history of the Indigenous Community of Amaicha del Valle some authorities travelled to different places in order to represent the group for several reasons, the most important being « to secure the land ». The voyages these leaders made not only marked and transformd them individually but also, and for several reasons, left their mark on the development of the community. From this framework, and through developing an interdisciplinary and long term analysis, the goal of this work is to rethink the travel experience as part of a repertoire of strategies aimed at the socio-ethnic reproduction of the community. For this purpose, we analyze the thips made by four community leaders in different historical contexts : the decades of 1800s, 1870s, 1990s and 2000s. Without neglecting the particularities of each moment, people and travels, we focus on those aspects that allow us to draw similarities between travelers and their thips along the temporal range of study. We consider the characteristics and trajectories of the ethnic leaders, the impact that their voyages had in terms of legitimacy and the personal construction of power, as well as the material and symbolic resources they searched for and obtained from those thips, both at community and individual level.

Throughout the history of the Indigenous Community of Amaicha del Valle some authorities travelled to different places in order to represent the group for several reasons, the most important being «to secure the land». The voyages these leaders made not only marked and transformed them individually but also, and for several reasons, left their mark on the development of the community. From this framework, and through developing an interdisciplinary and long term analysis, the goal of this work is to rethink the travel experience as part of a repertoire of strategies aimed at the socio-ethnic reproduction of the community. For this purpose, we analyze the trips made by four community leaders in different historical contexts: the decades of 1800s, 1870s, 1990s and 2000s. Without neglecting the particularities of each moment, people and travels, we focus on those aspects that allow us to draw similarities between travelers and their trips along the temporal range of study. We consider the characteristics and trajectories of the ethnic leaders, the impact that their voyages had in terms of legitimacy and the personal construction of power, as well as the material and symbolic resources they searched for and obtained from those trips, both at community and individual level.

على مدار تاريخ مجتمع السكان الأصليين في أمايشا ديل فالي، سافرت بعض السلطات إلى أماكن مختلفة من أجل تمثيل المجموعة لعدة أسباب، أهمها "تأمين الأرض". لم تقتصر الرحلات التي قام بها هؤلاء القادة على تمييزهم وتحويلهم بشكل فردي فحسب، بل تركت أيضًا، ولأسباب عديدة، بصماتها على تنمية المجتمع. من هذا الإطار، ومن خلال تطوير تحليل متعدد التخصصات وطويل الأجل، فإن الهدف من هذا العمل هو إعادة التفكير في تجربة السفر كجزء من مجموعة من الاستراتيجيات التي تهدف إلى التكاثر الاجتماعي العرقي للمجتمع. لهذا الغرض، نقوم بتحليل الرحلات التي قام بها أربعة من قادة المجتمع في سياقات تاريخية مختلفة: عقود القرن التاسع عشر والسبعينيات والتسعينيات والعقد الأول من القرن الحادي والعشرين. دون إهمال خصوصيات كل لحظة، والأشخاص والرحلات، نركز على تلك الجوانب التي تسمح لنا برسم أوجه التشابه بين المسافرين ورحلاتهم على طول النطاق الزمني للدراسة. نحن ننظر في خصائص ومسارات القادة العرقيين، وتأثير رحلاتهم من حيث الشرعية والبناء الشخصي للسلطة، وكذلك الموارد المادية والرمزية التي بحثوا عنها وحصلوا عليها من تلك الرحلات، على مستوى المجتمع والفرد على حد سواء.