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The Mapuche people in post-dictatorship Chile
Etudes rurales • 163-164 • Published In 2002 • Pages: 283-303
By: Boccara, Guillaume.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article deals with the Mapuche ethnic resurgence in post-dictatorship Chile. Drawing on several concrete examples, Boccara shows that the Mapuche social movement that developed since the 1990s both challenges the very basis of the dominant political and ideological order and contributes to the process of rethinking the way of doing politics and building democracy, territory, and citizenship. By revalidating former political institutions and reasserting the value of 'traditional' devices of communication, socialization and memorializing, indigenous leaders and organizations are contesting the territoriality imposed by the Chilean state in the wake of their military defeat at the end othe 19th century. Whereas in the 1960s and 1970s peasants used to claim for more lands, the ethnogenetic processes in which present indigenous peoples are involved lead to the building of new territories, social groupings and identities (p. 303).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Public welfare
- External relations
- Political movements
- Hospitals and clinics
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Real property
- Ethnogeography
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mapuche
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1998-2000
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1990-2002
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central and south central Chile
- NotesAdditional notes
- Guillaume Boccara
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-302)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72394662
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mapuche Indians