Descripción:
"This paper deals with the politic instrumentalization priests in the Archidiocese of La Plata were able to make of their position in charge of a rural parish in order to avoid the unwanted repercusions of Bourbon Reforms while improving, at the same time, their posion within the ecclesiastic hierarchy. This approach requires of a twosided oriented research: one dealing with the priest´s social relations in local society; another referring to the Archidiocese administrative structure. This is -in our opinion- a central question to understand the different posicions assumed by priests during the insurrectional context of the late 18th century. The analysis is centered in the carreers of two parish priests from the province of Chayanta: Gregorio de Merlos, accused of having been implied in the indigenous rebellion and Isidro de Herrera, killed up by his parishioners during this conflictive conjuncture. The research is concerned with the institutional and social background behind the priests attitudes and with the dialectic relation between these two spheres for which Merlos and Herrera´s careers provide a good insight."