DEJAR DE SERVIR AL REY PARA HACERLE LA GUERRA. LOS RENEGADOS EN LA GUERRA DE CHILE, 1560-1630.

WAR & society; ARMED Forces; MAPUCHE (South American people); POWER (Social sciences); SOCIAL norms; MILITARY technology; SPANISH military history

Este artículo estudia a los renegados en la Guerra de Chile o de Arauco entre fines del siglo XVI y las primeras décadas del siglo XVII. Se trataba de aquellos hombres que desertaron de las fuerzas militares españolas para unirse a los mapuches rebeldes, a quienes aportaban informaciones tácticas a la vez que ponían a su disposición su conocimiento y experiencia bélica. En él se discuten las razones de su huida, su recepción en la sociedad mapuche y su rol tanto militar como de mediadores culturales. Junto con analizar las escasas informaciones que se tienen de ellos, escritas desde el bando español que los consideraba traidores y apóstatas, plantea que su incorporación plena a la sociedad mapuche no era tal si no entraban a formar parte de un linaje indígena, lo que les concedía todos los derechos y obligaciones que el admapu contemplaba. Esta condición fragilizaba la permanencia de muchos de ellos al interior de las tierras rebeldes, pues ella dependía solo de la protección que un jefe de guerra les pudiera dar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the renegades in the War of Chile or of Arauco between the end of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth century. These were the men who deserted the Spanish military forces to join the Mapuche rebels, to whom they provided tactical information, as well as making their knowledge and war experience available to them. The reasons for their flight, their reception in Mapuche society and their roles as soldiers as well as cultural mediators are discussed. Along with analyzing the scarce information that exists about them, written from the Spanish side that considered them traitors and apostates, it is suggested that their full incorporation into Mapuche society depended on becoming a part of an indigenous lineage, which granted them all the rights and obligations that the admapu contemplated, which greatly weakened their presence within the rebel lands, since it relied on the protection a war chief could give them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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