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Mapuche ceremonial landscape, social recruitment and resource rights
World archaeology • 22 (2) • Published In 1990 • Pages: 223-241
By: Dillehay, Tom D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper presents a summary of the main variables accounting for the construction and distribution of historic and contemporary ceremonial fields and earthen burial mounds in the Mapuch society of Chile.This study reveals that monument building is related to the changing social relations between different groups and to a set of historically contingent factors - i. e., long-term kinship sedimentation, residential contiguity of related lineages, protection of land use rights, and profitable alliance-making and trade-excahnge affairs. Increased social and political complexity are achieved by a few local chiefs when they regulate the annual itinerary fo multiple ceremonial events at special ceremonial sites. The corresponding spatial and architectural expression of these relations are discussed, as well as their broader implications (p. 241).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Burial practices and funerals
- Lineages
- Sacred objects and places
- Organized ceremonial
- Cult of the dead
- Community heads
- Status, role, and prestige
- Miscellaneous structures
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mapuche
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- 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.
- Ethnoarchaeologist
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- south central Chile
- NotesAdditional notes
- Tom D. Dillehay
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75646489
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mapuche Indians