A nuanced exploration of one of the largest and least understood indigenous peoples Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 b&w photographs, 2 line drawings, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332. . 2011. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0252078233
ISBN 13: 9780252078231
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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--eluw�n funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great ngillatun fertility ritual. The volume includes a glossary of terms in Mapudungun.

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Magnus Course is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

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