Description
| Product ID: | 9780252078231 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Interp Culture New Millennium |
| Title: | Becoming Mapuche |
| Subtitle: | Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile |
| Authors: | Author: Magnus Course |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples, Chile |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-11-30 |
