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Becoming Mapuche

Name: Becoming Mapuche
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
SKU: 9780252078231
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252078231

Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile

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By Magnus Course
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Release Date: December 14, 2011
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Pages: 224

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A nuanced exploration of one of the largest and least understood indigenous peoples.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.

List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction Part One 1. Che: The Sociality of Exchange; 2. Kupal: The Sociality of Descent; 3. Ngillanwen: The Sociality of Affinity; 4. Eluwun: The End of Sociality Part Two 5. Palin: The Construction of Difference; 6. Ngillatun: The Construction of Similarity Conclusion Glossary of Terms in Mapudungun; Bibliography

''Becoming Mapuche makes significant contributions to South American ethnology by providing ethnographically based explorations of Mapuche concepts. Magnus Course also greatly contributes to more general theoretical concerns in anthropology such as social personhood, theories of exchange, and kinship studies. Written in a clear style, the book is both accessible to general readers and stimulating for anthropologists.''--Jonathan D. Hill, author of Made-from-Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon

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