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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457372803321

Autore

Course Magnus

Titolo

Becoming Mapuche [[electronic resource] ] : person and ritual in indigenous Chile / / Magnus Course

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-58278-3

9786613895233

0-252-09350-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Disciplina

305.898/72

Soggetti

Mapuche Indians - Ethnic identity

Mapuche Indians - Cultural assimilation

Mapuche Indians - Government relations

Electronic books.

Chile Social policy

Chile Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

EBL Purchase.

3 concurrent users.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part One Che: the sociality of exchange -- Küpal: the sociality of descent -- Ngillanwen: the sociality of affinity -- Eluwün: the end of sociality --Part two  Palin: the construction of difference -- Ngillatun: the construction of similarity.

Sommario/riassunto

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 - eluwun funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great



ngillatun fertility ritual.

This work blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile.