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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..
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2017
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Central Andes
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnoarchaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- south central Chile
- Notes
- Tom D. Dillehay
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241)
- LCCN
- 75646489
- LCSH
- Mapuche Indians