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- Title
The Long History of Indigenous Textual Cultures: A Response.
- Authors
Cáárcamo-Huechante, Luis E.
- Abstract
This critical note is a response to a panel on ''Indigenous Textual Studies'' held at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Los Angeles, California, in January 2011. I reflect on the ways in which the Mapuche people appropriated the horse as a medium of transportation and war in their struggles against colonial Spaniards between the mid-sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries in southern Chile. In my view, this history embodies an experience of indigenous appropriation, creativity, and innovation; and, in this sense, it resonates with the panel's discussion of the relationship of Indigenous peoples to other colonial technological, material, and symbolic arrivals, such as that of the book, the print industry, and other forms of Western media.
- Subjects
SPAIN; WESTERN Europe; MAPUCHE (South American people); PRINTING industry; HISTORY of the book; WAR horses; TRAVEL with horses; 16TH century Spanish history
- Publication
Textual Cultures: Text, Contexts, Interpretation (Indiana University Press), 2011, Vol 6, Issue 2, p142
- ISSN
1559-2936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/textcult.6.2.142