Magnus Course
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036477
- eISBN:
- 9780252093500
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036477.003.0008
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This concluding chapter argues that one of the key challenges facing rural Mapuche people is maintaining individual autonomy while entering into various kinds of social relations with others. It is ...
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This concluding chapter argues that one of the key challenges facing rural Mapuche people is maintaining individual autonomy while entering into various kinds of social relations with others. It is in the very act of creating oneself as che, as a true person, that one runs the greatest risk of losing oneself, of slipping from being the autonomous author of one's own person to being the product of somebody else's intention. Mapuche life is therefore about the maintenance of a delicate balance, the careful judging of social relationships, a fulfillment of the need to enter into sociality enough to be a true person but not so much that one's self disappears in the process.Less
This concluding chapter argues that one of the key challenges facing rural Mapuche people is maintaining individual autonomy while entering into various kinds of social relations with others. It is in the very act of creating oneself as che, as a true person, that one runs the greatest risk of losing oneself, of slipping from being the autonomous author of one's own person to being the product of somebody else's intention. Mapuche life is therefore about the maintenance of a delicate balance, the careful judging of social relationships, a fulfillment of the need to enter into sociality enough to be a true person but not so much that one's self disappears in the process.
Magnus Course
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036477
- eISBN:
- 9780252093500
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036477.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This book blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, the ...
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This book blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book 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, the book 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. The book explores the ways rural Mapuche people in one part of southern Chile create social relations, and are in turn themselves products of such relations.Less
This book blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book 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, the book 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. The book explores the ways rural Mapuche people in one part of southern Chile create social relations, and are in turn themselves products of such relations.
