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The Mapuche in modern Chile : a cultural history /

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Traces the history of the Mapuche and Chile from the initial colonization of Mapuche land in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crow, Joanna
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
Subjects:
Mapuche Indians > History.
Mapuche Indians > Social life and customs.
Indians of South America > Chile.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mythical objects and political subjects
  • Histories of conquest: the occupation of Araucanía and its consequences, 1862-1910
  • Renewed struggles for survival: national festivities and Mapuche political activism, 1910-1938
  • Caudillos, poets, and sopranos: articulating Mapuche identities on the national and international stage, 1938-1964
  • Revolutionary transformations and new representational challenges, 1964-1973
  • The Pinochet dictatorship: conflicting histories and memories, 1973-1990
  • Claiming historical truth in the era of neoliberal multiculturalism, 1990-2010
  • Conclusion: a defiant history of difference.