Juxtaposed Political Structures within Indigenous Culture. The Mapuche Case in Chile

The article aims to carry out an initial analy- sis of the juxtaposed power structures present in the Mapuche culture in Chile. For this we use a secondary data set, rescued both from bibliographic debates and from documents by corporate authors. The analysis identifies a series of organizations and...

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Autores: Valenzuela Van Treek, Esteban Manuel, González, Jaime, Mella Abalos, Magaly
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/69986
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmcpys/article/view/69986
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:estructuras políticas
cultura política indígena
mapuches.
political structures
indigenous political culture
Mapuches.
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Sumario:The article aims to carry out an initial analy- sis of the juxtaposed power structures present in the Mapuche culture in Chile. For this we use a secondary data set, rescued both from bibliographic debates and from documents by corporate authors. The analysis identifies a series of organizations and indigenous subjects as spatial and cultural articulators of other ethnic groups within the larger society in which they are inserted. On this basis, a theoretical model of indigenous political culture based on the historical resistance to the assimilation of the state is proposed. The article concludes that the observable juxtaposed power structures in the Mapuche case report a political management of culture, which allows establishing borders to defend organic autonomy against state action.