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Chile
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culture
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eluwun funerals
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ethnology
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ngillatun
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palin
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reserves
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South America
sport
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twentieth century
Product details
- ISBN 9780252078231
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2011
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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--eluwÜn funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great ngillatun fertility ritual. The volume includes a glossary of terms in Mapudungun.
Magnus Course is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.
