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The politics of being mapuche in Chile : Communities, identities and contested frontiers / Karen Cereso.

Por: Colaborador(es): Idioma: Inglés Brighton : University of Sussex , 2004Descripción: 331, [12] páginas : fotografías a color, mapasTipo de contenido:
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Tema(s): Nota de disertación: Tesis : (Doctor en Antropología Social).-- University of Sussex, 2004. Resumen: The thesis is based on anthropological research into the politics of ethnic identity based on fieldwork in Chile during 1998-9. Chile is in a period of political opening following a long period of brutally authoritarian rule (1973-1989). Mapuches are the largest indigenous group, almost ten per cent of Chile’s total population. Mapuche collective politics was precipitant in the downfall of the dictatorship. In post-authoritarian Chile, Mapuches have been able to forge new legal rights and carve out political space with an Indigenous Law, which, among other concessions, enables present or former indigenous communities to formalize land claims and guarantees of title. Nevertheless, for many communities and sectors, implementation has not been straightforward with a number of capitalist enterprises and landowners continuing to maintain hegemony while Mapuche community claims remain unresolved. Since 1998 there have therefore been episodes of acute and sometimes violent conflict around these communities, with repressive action towards Mapuches. The thesis researches “everyday” and “politicized” identities primarily based on discourse analysis and a Barthian view of identity. It looks at how Mapuche “everyday” identity and lived experience are brought to cultural and political forums to do politics. The thesis argues that despite the pressures of discrimination, poverty, and quite harsh repression, Mapuche identity is flourishing and confident. The thesis argues for greater academic focus on Mapuche agency, to see how Mapuches positively embrace their ethnic identity while also living with and accepting Chilean norms in some contexts. Through this agency, Mapuches are also opening new spaces, achieving political change. The Mapuche movement is broad and diverse and is not united as a nationalist movement. Nevertheless, there is considerable nationalist sentiment shared across many sectors of the movement. This is detectable in less militant organizations and communities as well as those that are more determinedly and visibly nationalist.
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Tesis y proyectos de título Centro Documentación Indígena Estantería Tesis y trabajos de título TCDI C414p 2004 (Navegar estantería(Abre debajo)) c.1 No para préstamo 025263

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The thesis is based on anthropological research into the politics of ethnic identity based on fieldwork in Chile during 1998-9. Chile is in a period of political opening following a long period of brutally authoritarian rule (1973-1989). Mapuches are the largest indigenous group, almost ten per cent of Chile’s total population. Mapuche collective politics was precipitant in the downfall of the dictatorship. In post-authoritarian Chile, Mapuches have been able to forge new legal rights and carve out political space with an Indigenous Law, which, among other concessions, enables present or former indigenous communities to formalize land claims and guarantees of title. Nevertheless, for many communities and sectors, implementation has not been straightforward with a number of capitalist enterprises and landowners continuing to maintain hegemony while Mapuche community claims remain unresolved. Since 1998 there have therefore been episodes of acute and sometimes violent conflict around these communities, with repressive action towards Mapuches.
The thesis researches “everyday” and “politicized” identities primarily based on discourse analysis and a Barthian view of identity. It looks at how Mapuche “everyday” identity and lived experience are brought to cultural and political forums to do politics. The thesis argues that despite the pressures of discrimination, poverty, and quite harsh repression, Mapuche identity is flourishing and confident. The thesis argues for greater academic focus on Mapuche agency, to see how Mapuches positively embrace their ethnic identity while also living with and accepting Chilean norms in some contexts. Through this agency, Mapuches are also opening new spaces, achieving political change. The Mapuche movement is broad and diverse and is not united as a nationalist movement. Nevertheless, there is considerable nationalist sentiment shared across many sectors of the movement. This is detectable in less militant organizations and communities as well as those that are more determinedly and visibly nationalist.