Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile

by Magnus Course

Book Overview

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...

• 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"