Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile
Magnus Course
Abstract
This book blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book 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, the book 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 ngill ... More
Keywords: Mapuche people, southern Chile, indigenous reserves, Mapuche life, eluwün funerals, palin, fertility ritual, Mapudungun
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252036477 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 | DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252036477.001.0001 |
