Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile
(Part of the Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium Series)
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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--eluw n funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great ngillatun fertility ritual. The volume includes a glossary of terms in Mapudungun.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252078233
ISBN13:9780252078231
Release Date:November 2011
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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