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Book Chile  Its Land and People

Download or read book Chile Its Land and People written by Francis J. G. Maitland and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 362 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 Sentient Lands

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  • Author : Piergiorgio Di Giminiani
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2018-11-20
  • ISBN : 0816535523
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Sentient Lands written by Piergiorgio Di Giminiani and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990, when Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year military dictatorship ended, democratic rule returned to Chile. Since then, Indigenous organizations have mobilized to demand restitution of their ancestral territories seized over the past 150 years. Sentient Lands is a historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people’s engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyzes environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and indigeneity to illustrate how land connections are articulated, in both landscape experiences and land claims. Rather than viewing land claims as simply bureaucratic procedures imposed on local understandings and experiences of land connections, Di Giminiani reveals these processes to be disputed practices of world making. Ancestral land formation is set in motion by the entangled principles of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, two very different and sometimes conflicting processes. Indigenous land ontologies are based on a relation between two subjects—land and people—both endowed with sentient abilities. By contrast, legal land ontologies are founded on the principles of property theory, wherein land is an object of possession that can be standardized within a regime of value. Governments also use land claims to domesticate Indigenous geographies into spatial constructs consistent with political and market configurations. Exploring the unexpected effects on political activism and state reparation policies caused by this entanglement of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, Di Giminiani offers a new analytical angle on Indigenous land politics.

Book The History of Chile

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  • Author : John L. Rector
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2005-11-29
  • ISBN : 140396257X
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book The History of Chile written by John L. Rector and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful history of Chile from prehistoric times to the present

Book Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation

Download or read book Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation written by Elizabeth Jane Macpherson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the engagement of state law with indigenous rights to water in comparative legal and policy contexts.

Book Travels in a Thin Country

Download or read book Travels in a Thin Country written by Sara Wheeler and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a Thin Country established Sara Wheeler as one of the very best travel writers in the world.

Book La Frontera

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  • Author : Thomas Miller Klubock
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2014-04-16
  • ISBN : 0822376563
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book La Frontera written by Thomas Miller Klubock and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today’s forestry "miracle" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Frontera shows that forestry development began in the early twentieth century when Chilean governments turned to forestry science and plantations of the North American Monterey pine to establish their governance of the frontier's natural and social worlds. Klubock demonstrates that modern conservationist policies and scientific forestry drove the enclosure of frontier commons occupied by indigenous and non-indigenous peasants who were defined as a threat to both native forests and tree plantations. La Frontera narrates the century-long struggles among peasants, Mapuche indigenous communities, large landowners, and the state over access to forest commons in the frontier territory. It traces the shifting social meanings of environmentalism by showing how, during the 1990s, rural laborers and Mapuches, once vilified by conservationists and foresters, drew on the language of modern environmentalism to critique the social dislocations produced by Chile's much vaunted neoliberal economic model, linking a more just social order to the biodiversity of native forests.

Book The Mapuche in Modern Chile

Download or read book The Mapuche in Modern Chile written by Joanna Crow and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapuche are the most numerous, most vocal and most politically involved indigenous people in modern Chile. Their ongoing struggles against oppression have led to increasing national and international visibility, but few books provide deep historical perspective on their engagement with contemporary political developments. Building on widespread scholarly debates about identity, history and memory, Joanna Crow traces the complex, dynamic relationship between the Mapuche and the Chilean state from the military occupation of Mapuche territory during the second half of the nineteenth century through to the present day. She maps out key shifts in this relationship as well as the intriguing continuities. Presenting the Mapuche as more than mere victims, this book seeks to better understand the lived experiences of Mapuche people in all their diversity. Drawing upon a wide range of primary documents, including published literary and academic texts, Mapuche testimonies, art and music, newspapers, and parliamentary debates, Crow gives voice to political activists from both the left and the right. She also highlights the growing urban Mapuche population. Crow's focus on cultural and intellectual production allows her to lead the reader far beyond the standard narrative of repression and resistance, revealing just how contested Mapuche and Chilean histories are. This ambitious and revisionist work provides fresh information and perspectives that will change how we view indigenous-state relations in Chile.

Book The Librarian and Book World

Download or read book The Librarian and Book World written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latin America and the United States

Download or read book Latin America and the United States written by Graham Henry Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Dictionary of Chile

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Chile written by Salvatore Bizzarro and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 1003 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the radical changes that have occurred in recent years in every aspect of Chilean life. Features more than 3,000 dictionary entries covering history, politics, geography, economics, the environment, culture, and a myriad other topics that include writers, artists, playwrights, and important figures, many of which were not included in the previous edition. Also included are 24 photographs of the paintings of famous Latin American artists, and an exhaustive bibliography of more than 1,200 resources subdivided by topic and fully annotated.

Book Michigan Library Bulletin

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  • Author : Michigan State Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Michigan Library Bulletin written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Michigan Library Bulletin

Download or read book Michigan Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Outlook

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 916 pages

Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theory and Practice of Communism   People s Republic of China   Hearings      93 1

Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Communism People s Republic of China Hearings 93 1 written by United States. Congress. House Internal Security and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books and Magazine Articles on Latin American Description and History Received in the Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan American Union

Download or read book Books and Magazine Articles on Latin American Description and History Received in the Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan American Union written by Columbus Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: