Becoming Mapuche : person and ritual in indigenous Chile / Magnus Course.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Course, Magnus.

Series:

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mapuche Indians--Ethnic identity.

Mapuche Indians.

Mapuche Indians--Cultural assimilation.

Mapuche Indians--Government relations.

Chile--Social policy.

Chile.

Chile--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

EBL Purchase.

3 concurrent users.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613895233

9781283582780

1283582783

9780252093500

025209350X

OCLC:

1162475832