Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001

by Florencia E. Mallon

Book Overview

Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile's largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community-Nicol s Ail o, located in the south of the country-across the entire twentieth century, from its founding in the resettlement process that followed the military defeat of the Mapuche by the Chilean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335743
• ISBN13: 9780822335740
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"