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Chapters: Mapuche, Huaca de Chena, Fuegians, Aymara Ethnic Group, Selknam, Yaghan, Promaucaes, Patagon, Diaguita, Mapuche Conflict, Capayán, Alberto Achacaz Walakial, Alacaluf, Picunche, Tehuelche, Indian Auxiliaries, Atacameño, Rapanui, Gualemo, Pehuenche, Moluche, Yanaconas, Cuncos, Chono, Poya, Chango People, Mapochoes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 108. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mapudungun, Spanish The Mapuche (Mäpfuchieu) are one of the indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. They were known as Araucanians (araucanos) by the Spaniards. This is now considered pejorative by some people. Mapuche make up about 4% of the Chilean population, who are particularly concentrated in the Araucania Region. Contrary to popular belief, the Quechua word awqa "rebel, enemy", is probably not the root of araucano: the latter is more likely derived from the placename rag ko (Spanish Arauco) "clayey water". The Mapuche traditional economy is based on agriculture; their traditional social organisation consists of extended families, under the direction of a "lonko" or chief, although in times of war they would unite in larger groupings and elect a toqui (from Mapudungun toki "axe, axe-bearer") to lead them. The Mapuche are a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups which shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage. Their influence extended between the Aconcagua River and Chiloé Archipelago and later eastward to the Argentine pampa. The Mapuche (note that Mapuche can refer to the whole group of Picunches (people of the north), Huilliches and Moluche or Nguluche from Araucanía or exclusively to the Moluche or Nguluche from Araucanía) inhabited the valleys between the Itata and Toltén Rivers, as w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=392305 ... Read more

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Title: Chile's terror duplicity.(THE FRONT)(indigenous peoples)
Author: Gretchen Gordon
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Can laws, policies, and agencies that are designed to help women achieve equality with men accommodate differences among women themselves? In Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State, Patricia Richards examines how Chilean state policy shapes the promotion of women’s interests but at the same time limits the advancement of different classes and racial-ethnic groups in various ways.

Chile has made a public commitment to equality between women and men through the creation of a National Women’s Service, SERNAM. Yet, indigenous Mapuche women and working-class pobladora activists assert that they have been excluded from programs implemented by SERNAM. Decisions about what constitutes "women’s interests" are usually made by middle class, educated, lighter-skinned women, and the priorities and concerns of poor, working-class, and indigenous women have not come to the fore.

Through critical analysis of the role of the state, the diversity of women’s movements, and the social and political position of indigenous peoples in Latin America, Richards provides an illuminating discussion of the ways in which the state defines women’s interests and constructs women’s citizenship. This book makes important contributions to feminist studies, theories of citizenship, and studies of the intersections of class, gender, and race. ... Read more

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More than gender divides Chilean women
An incisive look at the women's movement in Chile. The context is Chile's ending of Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990 and the subsequent gradual emergence of a pluralistic democracy. In this society, it has now become possible for many groups to overtly assert their influence. Richards studies how various female social groups have fared.

The problem is that there is no simple pure gender issue that most Chilean women might agree on. Richards shows the complexity of their society. Many divisions overlay. The concerts of educated, middle class women might not fully intersect those of struggling urban working class women.

Ethnicity and race also intrude. Rural women might be indigenous, rather than of European descent. Richards especially devotes attention to the Mapuche and their dealings with the government. The Mapuche were the only South American tribe in the Spanish Empire that the Spanish never defeated. Richards interviewed many Mapuche female leaders to find their concerns, which she summarises and analyses for us. ... Read more

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A play, portraying the life of an early Chilean Mapuche leader. (text in Spanish) ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on August 17, 2001. The length of the article is 1287 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: CHILE: MAPUCHE INDIANS DENOUNCE GOVERNMENT BEFORE U.N. AFTER VIOLENT PROTESTS.
Author: Eric P. Martin
Publication: NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs (Newsletter)
Date: August 17, 2001
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This digital document is an article from NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on July 9, 2010. The length of the article is 1845 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: CHILE: PRESIDENT SEBASTIÁN PIÑERA PROMISES NEW APPROACH TO AGE-OLD MAPUCHE QUANDARY.
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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 473 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mapuche seek support for struggle in Chile.
Author: Joan Taillon
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
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This digital document is an article from NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1486 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: CHILE: MAPUCHE PROTEST AGAINST DAM CONTINUES.
Publication: NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs (Newsletter)
Date: March 22, 2002
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Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts. To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal qualities but also because of its hermaphroditic flowers, which reflect the gender-shifting components of machi healing practices. Framed by the cultural constructions of gender and identity, Bacigalupo's fascinating findings span the ways in which the Chilean state stigmatizes the machi as witches and sexual deviants; how shamans use paradoxical discourses about gender to legitimatize themselves as healers and, at the same time, as modern men and women; the tree's political use as a symbol of resistance to national ideologies; and other components of these rich traditions. The first comprehensive study on Mapuche shamans' gendered practices, Shamans of the Foye Tree offers new perspectives on this crucial intersection of spiritual, social, and political power. ... Read more

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A must for gender studies
I am not an anthropologist and read this for its gender studies content.The book is in the best tradition of post-feminist scholarship.The author begins by locating shamanism in its modern Mapuche-Chilean context then tackles issues of gender as they are represented in ritual and acted out in relationships -personal and political- both within the Mapuche community as well as in modern Chile.Contradictory discourses abound, even within the community of machi (shamans).We come face to face with the fact that pristine Mapuche attitudes to gender variability are impossible to reconstruct, lost as they are under layers of catholic propaganda, Chilean nationalism and Mapuche assimilation.Clear and well-written.

Excellent book
Amazing book about Mapuche shamanism. The book challenges so many stereotypes about gender, sexuality and spirituality. She tells the story from her experience as well as from an academic point of view.
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This is a documented narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in the Cape Horn area, Tierra del Fuego, by the native Yamana and Charles Darwin, explorers, sealers, whalers, Anglican missionaries, and three other famous people who made contact with some of the last Yamana. The narration, based on geographical, historical, and ethnographic sources and Anne Chapman's fieldwork with the last few descendants of the Yamana, describes the Europeans' motives for going to Tierra del Fuego and the Yamana's motives for staying there some 6,000 years, what the outsiders gained, and what the Yamana lost. The main objective of this work is to incorporate the hunting-gathering Yamana into world history by evoking their way of life, especially Jemmy Button and Fuegia Basket in comparison with the outsiders they encountered, especially Drake, Cook, and Darwin in their scientific world in the context of their experiences with the Yamana in Tierra del Fuego and nearby areas. ... Read more

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The regions and the people of the southern cone of South America have been identified as wild and at the edge of the world. The present compilation of research by scholars, many of whom are members of the Argentine Academia, effectively summarizes the struggle of the Mapuche, Tehuelche, Rankuelche, and Selk'nam peoples for a continued sense of cultural identity distinct from the one of inferiority foisted upon them by Spanish conquerors. ... Read more

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Stunning
This is a book of great beauty. The large format, single page photographs are a feast. The comments on the facing page are apt and cut to the chase. They are comprehensive enough to be educative. For more information one needs to go to another sort of book and format. This one is like a beautifully laid out museum.

Apart from the sheer pleasure of perusing this book and the knowledge I gained, I felt I was gently being led to appreciate how development and diversity characterises a tradition, in this case the Jewish one.

The book is massive. But don't let that deter you.

The Jewish Art Book for the home
This is a book ofphotos that represent the Jewish Ceremonial Art Collection of a Chilean Couple;Jacocbo and Asea Furman. Each page has a full size photograph of the object and a detailed description of it on the other page. The art is beautiful and the range is wide.The only slight flaw in this book is that I would have included more of the collectors notes.They were fascinating. This is a top rate book and I am pleased it is in my collection.Libraries should include this as an art reseach item and it is fabulous for a coffee table.

WONDERFUL!
IT WAS ENTERTAINING AND FUN TO READ AND I ENJOYED THE PICTURES VERY MUCH. ... Read more

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When the regions of Pampa, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego were first described to the Spanish crown, they were presented as being empty of human inhabitants. In truth, the area--although indeed large with a low overall population density--supported a thriving foraging community. The research presented here testifies to the complex history of the Mapuche, Tehuelche, Rankuelche, and Fueguian peoples. Anthropological studies investigate biological and cultural population diversity, early archaeological records, and ethnographic details of kinship, religion, ritual, and language, revealing a more accurate record of the past. ... Read more

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Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonise the continental extremity of South America. Their arrival marked the culmination of mankind's epic journey to people the globe. These intrepid nomads confronted a hostile climate every bit as forbidding as Ice Age Europe as they settled the wilds of Fuego-Patagonia. Much later, sixteenth-century European voyagers encountered their descendants: the Aonikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Yamana (Yahgan) and Kawashekar (Alacaluf). The first contacts led to tales of a race of giants and, ever since, Patagonia has exerted a special hold on the European imagination. Tragically, by the mid twentieth-century the last remnants of the indigenous way of life had disappeared for ever. The essays in this volume trace a largely unwritten history of human adaptation, survival and eventual extinction. Published to accompany a major exhibition on Fuego-Patagonia at the Museum of Mankind, London. ... Read more

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Better Than Huck Finn
This is a fun, true-life adventure book!I started reading it after reading "The Voyage of the Beagle" and reading about Fitzroy and the Voyage of the Beagle in other books, thus becoming interested in the Fuegan indians captured by Fitzroy and taken to London. I stumbled on this book.This book is a sleeper!I don't understand why it is not more well known. This writer has a way of making points through understatement that is quite funny at times.If you like reading about Shakleton in "Endurance" or Josh Sloacum's books you will absolutely love this book.This book gives you a perspective on the american indians from an insider's view I have never seen anywhere else.Absolutely fascinating.I want to drop everything and go see Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

A hidden gem
This is one of the true golden nuggets, the rare find that few people know about... it captures an era and a people long gone with poignant, personal anthropology in a voice filled with empathy, objectivity, and humility. How many peoples like the fierce, brilliant Ona will never again walk the earth? What secrets, innovations, and knowledge bred of millenia living within the ecosystem are lost forever? It's an unknowable question, but the depth of the answer is suggested in the unvarnished portrayal of life growing up among the peoples of southern tierra del fuego. This book is a journey into a time and place filled with danger, adventure, enterprise, cultural exchange in the deepest sense, and above all comradeship and family bonds. I have read Uttermost Part of the Earth numerous times and am so grateful for its existence.

a unique and important book
No other book has been written, to my knowledge, that is similar to the "Uttermost Part of the Earth."The book is well and evocatively titled. The author was the third white child to be born in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina in 1874.Ushuaia has become today the southernmost city of the world -- a place where 60 degrees F is a hot summer day and the wind never stops blowing.

The author's missionary family came to Ushuaia to convert the Yahgan Indians who eked out a cold existence around the waters of the Straits of Magellan.Growing up, the author became even more fascinated with the Ona Indians who lived in the interior of Tierra del Fuego and hunted guanaco, a wild version of the llama. The author spoke the languages of both tribes, lived with them,and recorded their culture and lifestyles. These two peoples are now culturally extinct.In 1947 the author estimated that their numbers had declined from more than 7,000 when he was born to about 150.Disease brought by the White Man along with White settlement of Tierra de Fuego for sheep herding, mining, and fishing doomed the Indians.

The "Uttermost Part of the Earth" is also an adventure tale, told in a dead-pan understated style that accentuates the extraordinary events in the author's life.There are tales of sailing in waters that probably have the worst weather in the world and of being the first to cross Tierra del Fuego on foot.One does not doubt Lucas's veracity; there is little of the contrived excitement lesser adventurers try to generate.Indeed, he seems guilty of understatement.One would welcome from him more forthright expression of his views.

This book deserves a place on the short bookshelf of travel and adventure classics."Uttermost" is one of the finest and most unique reads you will find, and one of the most informative also.

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Good resource on early missionarys in Chile
I visited Tierra del Fuego & Patagonia in March of 2004. When attending a lecture aboard ship regarding the early settlement of this area I was told a good resource book on this area was Lucas Bridges book "The Uttermost Part of the Earth" - it was a great recommendation. I was able to obtain the book via Interlibrary loan (believe it came from a library in Minnesota). A great read! Lucas was one of 6 children of Thomas Bridges a missionary sent from England to Christianize the natives. 5 of his 6 children were born there. The book doesn't deal that much with actually missionary (ie: church) work as it does the experiences of Bridges family members with the native tribes. What endurance those people had! I'd recommend it to anyone interested in that part of the world.

Why is this book out of print?
I was given an old hardback copy of this title by my husband's granny, who lived in Tierra del Fuego for several years. It's the most rivetting book I've ever read. I'd love to recommend it to my book group, but where is it?

This is the remarkable story of a family which, whilst colonising, nevertheless also became as assimilated into, and trusted by, the native community as it is possible to be. E. Lucas Bridges' account of his family's relationship with the soon-to-be-extinct Indians of Tierra del Fuego is one book I'll read (and be completely absorbed by) again and again.

It left me with enormous respect for the writer, and deep regret for the extinction that incomers (sometimes unwittingly, sometimes consciously) meted out to this fascinating and multi-faceted people.

One very minor lack in this brilliant book is the expression of any emotional response to the events that unfold. The story is narrated very factually and presumably accurately, but I often found myself wanting to know "What did the writer really feel when this or that intriguing or absurd or dangerous sequence of events played out before him?".

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Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter- gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America--"the uttermost end of the earth." Their arrival marked the culmination of humankind's epic journey to people the globe. Now they are extinct. This book tells their story. The book describes how these intrepid nomads confronted a hostile climate every bit as forbidding as ice-age Europe as they penetrated and settled the wilds of Fuego-Patagonia. Much later, sixteenth-century European voyagers encountered their descendants: the At0nikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Yt.mana (Yahgan), and Kawashekar (Alacaluf), living, as the Europeans saw it, in a state of savagery. The first contacts led to tales of a race of giants and, ever since, Patagonia has exerted a special hold on the European imagination. Tragically, by the mid-twentieth century, the last remnants of the indigenous way of life had disappeared for ever. The essays in this volume trace a largely unwritten history of human adaptation, survival, and eventual extinction. Accompanied by 110 striking photographs, they are published to accompany a major exhibition on Fuego-Patagonia at the Museum of Mankind, London.The contributors are Gillian Beer, Luis Alberto Borrero, Anne Chapman, Chalmers M. Clapperton, Andrew P. Currant, Jean-Paul Duviols, Mateo Martinic B., Robert D. McCulloch, Colin McEwan, Francisco Mena L., Alfredo Prieto, Jorge Rabassa, and Michael Taussig. ... Read more

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Got a good review in _Nature_
A short review in the magazine _Nature_ (9 Oct 97, p 557) has a cool picture and says "gripping read and lavishly illustrated."END ... Read more

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