Tensions between society and the argentine State in the XIX century:

claims from the people of San Vicente, Province of Buenos Aires

Abstract

In the context of the institutionalization of state power in the San Vicente party, the sources surveyed in the San Vicente Culture Archive allow us to propose as a working hypothesis that during the 19th century the needs of the population of the Department of San Vicente were transformed in accordance with the political and institutional changes referred to the process of formation of the Nation-State. These changes have had a strong impact, both on a symbolic level and on the materialities that were part of political and daily life. However, it was the claims of the neighbors that enabled the institutionali-zation of local political-legal organizations.

It also follows that these claims, established as "objects" in administrative sources from the late nineteenth century, could be understood as the acceptance and institutional recognition of local daily needs, which from our perspective of study becomes a preferential documentary fund for access to a portion of the memories and traditions of at least one sector of the population of San Vicente, the so-called "neighbors", which complements the archaeological records and allows a better understanding of them.

In order to contribute to the reflection on the processes of construction of institutional power structures in the Buenos Aires campaign, and in relation to this space of analysis, in this work we analyze as the main objective, and specifically, a portion of the claims established in the historical sources of the Municipal Books of San Vicente from the 19th and early 20th centuries. These are the needs related to the elements and types of enclosures of the land.