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Subject(s)

• Mapuche Indians—History [Browse]
• Mapuche Indians—Wars [Browse]
• Mapuche Indians—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Mounds—Chile—Araucanía [Browse]
• Spain—Colonies—America [Browse]
• Araucanía (Chile)—History [Browse]
• Araucanía (Chile)—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Chile—History—1565-1810 [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Series

Cambridge studies in archaeology [More in this series]

Summary note

"From 1550 to 1850, the Araucanian polity in southern Chile was a center of political resistance to the intruding Spanish empire. In this book, Tom D. Dillehay examines the resistance strategies of the Araucanians and how they incorporated Andean knowledge and used mounds and other sacred monuments to reorganize their political and cultural life in order to unite against the Spanish. Drawing on anthropological research conducted over three decades, Dillehay focuses on the development of leadership, shamanism, ritual landscapes, and power relations and on how healing ceremonies performed at actively used mounds today give meaning to the past and reveal the social and cosmological principles by which the Araucanians have organized their society. His study combines recent developments in social theory with the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records." "Monuments, Empires, and Resistance is an indispensable text for all archaeologists interested in the social, ideological, and demographic processes that construct and maintain mound building and mound worship in the past. This book details for the first time ethnographic ritual narratives that reveal the kin relations between mounds and living shamans. Dillehay illuminates these complex processes and the changing consciousness of the people who built and live with the mounds."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-480) and index.

Contents

• Prospects and patterns. Purposes, settings, and definitions (Setting the historical background : fifteenth to seventeenth centuries ; Scholarly research ; Uniting the archaeological and textual past and the ethnographic present ; The utopic polity) ; Shaping analogical and conceptual perspectives (Analogical reasoning ; Concepts useful to understanding the Araucanian case ; Approaches to space, place, and landscape ; Ritual healing narratives and recollective memories) ; Araucanian prehistory and history : old biases and new views (Previous ideas about Araucanian history and identity ; Political and demographic configurations ; Linking Kuel archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography) ; Imbricating social, material, metaphorical, and spiritual worlds (Ancestral knowledge and tradition ; Space and religion as knowledge ; Illness, death, and therapeutic places ; Ancestors and deities ; Conjunction of ethereal and physical spaces ; Machi shamans : mediators of ancestral knowledge and healing experience ; Concepts of time, space, creation narratives, and knowledge ; The ceremonial meeting of Wenumapu and Nag Mapu worlds ; Spatiality of ritual intercessors : Nguillatufe and Machi ; Continuity from past to present in Rehue, Kuel, Rehuekuel and Nguillatun fields ; Andean continuity in ceremonial space as embedded in the trophic socio-spatial order ; Cosmunities and conclusions) ; The ethnographies of Kuel, narratives, and communities (With Jose Saavedra ; Kuel functions ; The priestly shaman or Machi and the Kuel : exchanging identities and transposing histories ; Postceremony conversations with Machi Juanita and Lucinda ; Ethnographic descriptions by other informants ; Analytical meaning and perspective ; Kuel, Machi, and the Spirit world ; Knowledge, Kuel, and mound literacy or Nauchi) ; An archaeological view of Kuel and Rehuekuel (General archaeological objectives, methods, and findings to date ; Agricultural canals and raised fields ; Analytical perspectives on Araucanian monumentalism)
• Analysis and interpretation. Contact, fragmentation, and recruitment and the Rehuekuel (Indigenous political and religious structures : leaders and venues ; Power venues and leadership action ; Political effects of population fragmentation : recruitment and annexation ; Lasting outcomes of recruitment and adoption : compatriotism, political unity, and ritual feasting ; Reflection) ; Recursiveness, kinship geographies, and polity (Becoming Andean and Inka ; Spatializing gatherings at and between Rehuekuel for Ayllarehue ; Nauchi : mound literacy and the social working of Rehuekuel ; Identities, compatriots, and Ayllarehue ; Memory and perpetuity ; Back to the future : the confederated utopic locality
• a heterotopic entity) ; Epilogue (A wide-angle view of mounds ; Effective recursiveness ; Timelessness of Mapuche landscapes
• Appendix one: Ethnographic ritual narratives at Hualonkokuel and Trentrenkuel
• Appendix two: Radiocrabon dates and thermoluminescence dates.
• Purposes, settings, and definitions
• shaping analogical and conceptual perspectives
• Araucanian prehistory and history : old biases and new views
• Imbricating social, material and metaphysical, and spiritual worlds
• The ethnographies of Kuel, narratives, and communities / with José Saavedra
• An archaelogical view of Kuel and Rehuekuel
• Contact, fragmentation, and recruitment and the Rehuekuel
• Recursiveness, kinship geographies, and polity
• Epilogue
• Appendix One: Ethnological ritual narratives at Hualonkokuel and Trentrenkuel
• Appendix Two: Radiocarbon dates and thermoluninescence dates.

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Other title(s)

Araucanian polity and ritual narratives

ISBN

• 0521872626
• 9780521872621
• 051127338X
• 9780511273384
• 0511274173
• 9780511274176

LCCN

2006027844

OCLC

71146394

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