Abstract
From a multi-species perspective, my article describes the acts of stabilizing diversity carried out by Swiss immigrants in the province of Misiones (northeast Argentina). Through an alliance with nature, they gave birth to a silvicultural agriculture, blending strategies of purification with a tolerance for mixing. From the end of the 19th century to the first decades of the 20th century, these farmers multiplied settlement nuclei in the free lands of the region, disregarding the State and planned design. The stabilization of diversity was a struggle between the genealogical model and the overflow generated by spontaneous interbreeding. The contours of plant and human varieties emerged in connection with the environment, and were not product of external imposition. The resolution of the difficulties posed by subtropical agriculture managing inter-species tensions forged the ecological procedure.
Key Words:
Multiplication; Filiation; Multispecie; Domestication
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