Resumen de Vida cotidiana en la frontera pampeana (1740-1870): vivir en la frontera
This paper proposes a detailed study of the world of the Argentine Pampa's frontier and its lifestyle, trying to rebuild the material life - the housing, the vestment and the diet - between the beginning of the frontier's militarization in the XVIIIth century and the end of it in the XIXth century. The frontier's material life was not so primitive, limited and precarious as had been described by the travelers in the XIXth century and the historiography. In the first decade of that century, the house was not a status symbol in the Argentine Pampa rural world, but already in the years before 1880 the domestic life had turned more sophisticated at the ranchos and modest houses. Items like perfumes, washbasin, etc. were sold at the pulperías and rural stores. The diet's variety was an important indicator for this change too. Also the vestment was not as rustic as the historical writings supossed. Facing a mercantile system that was based on pulperías and rural stores, and the increasing importance of the consumption credit, the frontiers population integrated itself as consumers.
