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- Title
El modelo de ancestralidad mapuche: Un debate en torno a las afinidades culturales de las representaciones escatológicas amerindias.
- Authors
MOULIAN TESMER, RODRIGO; ROJAS BAHAMONDE, PABLO
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the Mapuche ancestrality model and discusses its cultural affinities regarding other Amerindian reference models. The theoretical-methodological perspective, from which this subject is approached is the analysis of social representations. In this regard, this work suggests that the Mapuche culture has a strong ancestral model that results akin to the Andean pattern. This is evident in the presence of ancestors in social life, in the agency and power attributed to them, and in the devices and uses of memory of the dead. The analysis of the system of variants of representations about the afterlife dwelling and the manifestations of the spirits in earth evidences conspicuous correlatives with respect to the eschatological conceptions of this cultural area. Although this does not necessarily imply a filiation of origin, it exposes the existence of co-traditional traits in the representations of death in the central and southern Andean areas.
- Subjects
INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas; ESCHATOLOGY; MAPUCHE (South American people); ANDEANS (South American people); SOUTH Americans
- Publication
Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales, 2019, Issue 36, p127
- ISSN
0717-3202
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4206/rev.austral.cienc.soc.2019.n36-07