Mitos y Leyendas del pueblo mapuche

Mitos y Leyendas del pueblo mapuche

Author: Juan Andrés Piña

Publisher: Editorial Catalonia

Published: 2021-08-19

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9563248686

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Este libro recopila los mitos y leyendas de origen mapuche más importantes que se conservan hasta hoy. Más de cincuenta fascinantes relatos en torno a acontecimientos extraordinarios, fantásticos y trascendentes relativos a lo cósmico, a la creación y destrucción del mundo y del ser humano, donde intervienen dioses y semidioses. Narraciones que combinan elementos reales y comprobables con otros maravillosos e imaginarios: por qué un lago del sur es salado, de dónde proviene el nombre de una flor, cómo se extinguió un volcán o de qué manera un espíritu poderoso ayudó a la comunidad. En estas páginas no solo se habla de lugares o personas específicas que los protagonizan, sino de un mundo mágico y a veces remoto, poblado de espíritus que colaboran con la gente o se enfrentan a ellas. También de seres humanos que consiguen una profunda relación con la naturaleza, al punto que terminan transformados en piedras, ríos o árboles. Grandes creadores de los epew (cuentos), los mapuche fueron consolidando allí un vívido universo poblado de seres fantásticos; animales monstruosos, ríos y mares que cobran vida; entes sobrenaturales que conviven con la gente, flores y árboles sanadores; brujos y chamanes, ánimas tutelares, diluvios, terremotos y maremotos que cambian la fisonomía del lugar y volcanes indómitos habitados por espíritus que transforman su entorno. Estas lecturas ayudan a comprender la cosmovisión de un pueblo que ha sido base de nuestro crecimiento como nación. Muchos de estos relatos tienen influencias de la cultura occidental, pero adquieren un renovado fulgor y fuerte originalidad marcados por el particular entorno geográfico, las costumbres y rituales mapuche y su coherente religiosidad.


Sentient Lands

Sentient Lands

Author: Piergiorgio Di Giminiani

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0816539111

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In 1990, when Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year military dictatorship ended, democratic rule returned to Chile. Since then, Indigenous organizations have mobilized to demand restitution of their ancestral territories seized over the past 150 years. Sentient Lands is a historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people’s engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyzes environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and indigeneity to illustrate how land connections are articulated, in both landscape experiences and land claims. Rather than viewing land claims as simply bureaucratic procedures imposed on local understandings and experiences of land connections, Di Giminiani reveals these processes to be disputed practices of world making. Ancestral land formation is set in motion by the entangled principles of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, two very different and sometimes conflicting processes. Indigenous land ontologies are based on a relation between two subjects—land and people—both endowed with sentient abilities. By contrast, legal land ontologies are founded on the principles of property theory, wherein land is an object of possession that can be standardized within a regime of value. Governments also use land claims to domesticate Indigenous geographies into spatial constructs consistent with political and market configurations. Exploring the unexpected effects on political activism and state reparation policies caused by this entanglement of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, Di Giminiani offers a new analytical angle on Indigenous land politics.


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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published:

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9251386625

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Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica

Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica

Author: Ernst Halbmayer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-10

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1000023095

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This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo–Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica. It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropology in recent decades. Centering on relations between Chibchan groups and their neighbors, the contributions consider prevailing socio-cosmological principles and their relationship to Amazonian animism and Mesoamerican and Andean analogism. Classical notions of area homogeneity are reconsidered and the book formulates an overarching proposal for how to make sense of the heterogeneity of the region’s indigenous groups. Drawing on original fieldwork and comparative analysis, the volume provides a valuable anthropological addition to archaeological and linguistic knowledge of the Isthmo・Colombian Area.