Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile - Couverture souple

Course, Magnus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252078233 ISBN 13 : 9780252078231

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2011

Synopsis

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--eluwün funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great ngillatun fertility ritual. The volume includes a glossary of terms in Mapudungun.

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À propos de l?auteur

Magnus Course is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252078233
• ISBN 13: 9780252078231
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible