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Book The Mapuche Indians of Southern Chile

Download or read book The Mapuche Indians of Southern Chile written by W. J. Havelock Davidson and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Language of the Land

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  • Author : Leslie Ray
  • Publisher : IWGIA
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9788791563379
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Language of the Land written by Leslie Ray and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to examine the contemporary Mapuche: their culture, their struggle for autonomy within the modern-day nation state, their religion, language, and distinct identity. Leslie Ray looks back over the history of relations between the Mapuche and the Argentine and Chilean states, and examines issues of ethnicity, biodiversity, and bio-piracy in Mapuche lands today, their struggle for rights over natural resources, and the impact of tourism and neoliberalism. The Mapuche of what is today southern Chile and Argentina were the first and only indigenous peoples on the continent to have their sovereignty legally recognized by the Spanish empire, and their reputation for ferocity and bravery was legendary among the Spanish invaders. Their sense of communal identity and personal courage has forged among the Mapuche a strong instinct for self-preservation over the centuries. Today their struggle continues: neither Chile nor Argentina specifically recognize the rights of indigenous peoples. In recent years disputes over land rights, particularly in Chile, have provoked fierce protests from the Mapuche. In both countries, policies of assimilation have had a disastrous effect on the Mapuche language and cultural integrity. Even so, in recent years the Mapuche have managed a remarkable cultural and political resurgence, in part through a tenacious defense of their ancestral lands and natural resources against marauding multinationals, which has catapulted them to regional and international attention. Leslie Ray has been a freelance translator since the mid 1980s. He has translated a number of books from Italian and Spanish in the fields of architecture, design, and art history. A regular visitor to Argentina since the late eighties, he has worked actively with Mapuche organizations there since the late 1990s. In addition to his work on the Mapuche, he has also published articles on Argentine social, indigenous, and language-related issues for publications as diverse as History Today and The Linguist.

Book The Araucanian Or Mapuche Indians of Southern Chile

Download or read book The Araucanian Or Mapuche Indians of Southern Chile written by South American Missionary Society and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Araucanian Or Mapuche Indians of Southern Chile

Download or read book The Araucanian Or Mapuche Indians of Southern Chile written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mapuche Indians of Chile

Download or read book The Mapuche Indians of Chile written by Louis C. Faron and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Becoming Mapuche

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  • Author : Magnus Course
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2011-11-30
  • ISBN : 025209350X
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Becoming Mapuche written by Magnus Course and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnus Course blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this superb ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, Becoming Mapuche takes readers to the indigenous reserves where many Mapuche have been forced to live since the beginning of the twentieth century. In addition to accounts of the intimacies of everyday kinship and friendship, Course also offers the first complete ethnographic analyses of the major social events of contemporary rural Mapuche life--eluwün funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great ngillatun fertility ritual. The volume includes a glossary of terms in Mapudungun.

Book The Language of the Land

Download or read book The Language of the Land written by Leslie Ray and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapuche of what is today southern Chile and Argentina were the first and only indigenous peoples on the continent to have their sovereignty legally recognised by the Spanish empire, and their reputation for ferocity and bravery was legendary among the Spanish invaders. Their sense of communal identity and personal courage has forged among the Mapuche a strong instinct for self-preservation. Today their struggle continues: neither Chile nor Argentina specifically recognise the rights of indigenous peoples. In recent years disputes over land rights, particularly in Chile, have provoked fierce protests from the Mapuche. In both countries, policies of assimilation have had a disastrous effect on the Mapuche language and cultural integrity. Even so, in the last ten years the Mapuche have managed a remarkable cultural and political resurgence, in part through a tenacious defence of their ancestral lands and natural resources against marauding multinationals which has catapulted them to regional and international attention. The Language of the Land is the first book in English to examine the contemporary Mapuche: their culture, their struggle for autonomy within the modern-day nation state, their religion, language and distinct identity. Leslie Ray examines issues of ethnicity, biodiversity and biopiracy in Mapuche lands, their struggle for rights over natural resources, and the impacts of tourism and neoliberalism.

Book The Birth of the Native Church in Southern Chile

Download or read book The Birth of the Native Church in Southern Chile written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mapuche Social Structure

Download or read book Mapuche Social Structure written by Louis C. Faron and published by Urbana, U. of Illinois P. This book was released on 1961 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monuments  Empires  and Resistance

Download or read book Monuments Empires and Resistance written by Tom D. Dillehay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From AD 1550 to 1850, the Araucanian polity in southern Chile was a center of political resistance to the intruding Spanish empire. In this book, Tom D. Dillehay examines the resistance strategies of the Araucanians and how they used mound building and other sacred monuments to reorganize their political and culture life in order to unite against the Spanish. Drawing on anthropological research conducted over three decades, Dillehay focuses on the development of leadership, shamanism, ritual, and power relations. His study combines developments in social theory with the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records. Both theoretically and empirically informed, this book is a fascinating account of the only indigenous ethnic group to successfully resist outsiders for more than three centuries and to flourish under these conditions.

Book Life on a Half Share

Download or read book Life on a Half Share written by Milan Stuchlik and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mapuche person  Mapuche people

Download or read book Mapuche person Mapuche people written by Magnus Edwin George Course and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patients  Doctors and Healers

Download or read book Patients Doctors and Healers written by Dorthe Brogård Kristensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients. Through case studies of patients in the context of medical pluralism, Kristensen argues that medical practices are powerful social symbol indicative of overarching socio-political processes. As certain types of extreme and violent experiences–known as olvidos–lack a framework that allows them to be expressed openly, they therefore surface as symptoms of an illness, often with no apparent organic pathology. In these contexts, indigenous medicine, thanks to its sensitivity to socio-political contexts, provides a space for articulation and management of collective experiences and suffering among patients in Southern Chile.

Book Race and the Chilean Miracle

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  • Author : Patricia Lynne Richards
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2013-06-28
  • ISBN : 0822978679
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Race and the Chilean Miracle written by Patricia Lynne Richards and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic reforms imposed by Augusto Pinochet's regime (1973-1990) are often credited with transforming Chile into a global economy and setting the stage for a peaceful transition to democracy, individual liberty, and the recognition of cultural diversity. The famed economist Milton Friedman would later describe the transition as the "Miracle of Chile." Yet, as Patricia Richards reveals, beneath this veneer of progress lies a reality of social conflict and inequity that has been perpetuated by many of the same neoliberal programs. In Race and the Chilean Miracle, Richards examines conflicts between Mapuche indigenous people and state and private actors over natural resources, territorial claims, and collective rights in the Araucania region. Through ground-level fieldwork, extensive interviews with local Mapuche and Chileans, and analysis of contemporary race and governance theory, Richards exposes the ways that local, regional, and transnational realities are shaped by systemic racism in the context of neoliberal multiculturalism. Richards demonstrates how state programs and policies run counter to Mapuche claims for autonomy and cultural recognition. The Mapuche, whose ancestral lands have been appropriated for timber and farming, have been branded as terrorists for their activism and sometimes-violent responses to state and private sector interventions. Through their interviews, many Mapuche cite the perpetuation of colonialism under the guise of development projects, multicultural policies, and assimilationist narratives. Many Chilean locals and political elites see the continued defiance of the Mapuche in their tenacious connection to the land, resistance to integration, and insistence on their rights as a people. These diametrically opposed worldviews form the basis of the racial dichotomy that continues to pervade Chilean society. In her study, Richards traces systemic racism that follows both a top-down path (global, state, and regional) as well as a bottom-up one (local agencies and actors), detailing their historic roots. Richards also describes potential positive outcomes in the form of intercultural coalitions or indigenous autonomy. Her compelling analysis offers new perspectives on indigenous rights, race, and neoliberal multiculturalism in Latin America and globally.

Book Contested Nation

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  • Author : Pilar M. Herr
  • Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 2019-12-01
  • ISBN : 0826360955
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Contested Nation written by Pilar M. Herr and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucanía, Chile’s southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucanía—because of its status as a separate nation-state—became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic. This book studies how Araucanía’s indigenous inhabitants, the Mapuche, played a central role in the new Chilean state’s pursuit of an expansionist policy that simultaneously exalted indigenous bravery while relegating the Mapuche to second-class citizenship. It also examines other subaltern groups, particularly bandits, who challenged the nation-state’s monopoly on force and were thus regarded as criminals and enemies unfit for citizenship in Chilean society. Pilar M. Herr’s work advances our understanding of early state formation in Chile by viewing this process through the lens of Chilean-Mapuche relations. She provides a thorough historical context and suggests that Araucanía was central to the process of post-independence nation building and territorial expansion in Chile.

Book By Reason Or by Force

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  • Author : Joseph H. Bryan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book By Reason Or by Force written by Joseph H. Bryan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indigenous Peoples of the Southern Cone

Download or read book Indigenous Peoples of the Southern Cone written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Indigenous peoples in Argentina, Indigenous peoples in Chile, Guarani people, Ache, Mapuche, Wichi people, Fuegians, Quechua people, List of indigenous languages in Argentina, Aymara people, Selknam people, Yaghan people, Malon de la Paz, Tehuelche people, Abipon people, Patagon, Toba people, Diaguita, Araucanization of Patagonia, Second Malon de la Paz, Alacaluf people, Comechingon, Picunche, Charrua people, Rapa Nui people, Indigenous peoples in South America, Quilmes people, Puelche people, Huilliche people, Chango people, Minuane people, Chicoana, Amaicha. Excerpt: The Ache (pronounced ) Indians are a traditional hunter-gatherer tribe living in Paraguay. They are called "Guayaki" by Guarani-speaking neighbors and in early anthropological accounts. The earliest published reports (Lozano 1873-74 summary of Jesuit accounts in the 17th century) about the Ache refer to them as "Guajagui," a term based on the Guarani root "Guaja" (= enemy tribe, or brother-in-law) and "gui" a common Ache suffix (meaning "essence of" or "having the property of"). The Ache language provides clues to their origin. Current analysis suggests that it is a Tupi-Guarani lexicon, overlaid on a unique grammar structure not found in sister Guarani languages. Genetic analyses suggest that the Ache are a group of mixed biological origin containing about 60-65% Tupi-Guarani genes and 35-40% of their genes with affinities to the Je language family. The Ache are also culturally and biologically distinct from the neighboring Guarani. Early descriptions of the Ache emphasized their white skin, light eye and hair color, beards, Asiatic features, and practice of cannibalism as identifying characteristics. Their subsistence practices and technology were considered extremely simple, and nomadism made them secretive and evasive. From...