TY - BOOK AU - Course,Magnus TI - Becoming Mapuche: person and ritual in indigenous Chile T2 - Interpretations of culture in the new millennium SN - 9780252093500 AV - F3126 .B436 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Urbana, IL PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Mapuche Indians KW - Ethnic identity KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Government relations KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Part One Che: the sociality of exchange --; Küpal: the sociality of descent --; Ngillanwen: the sociality of affinity --; Eluwün: the end of sociality --; Part two Palin: the construction of difference --; Ngillatun: the construction of similarity; 2; b N2 - Magnus Course blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this superb ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, Becoming Mapuche takes readers to the indigenous reserves where many Mapuche have been forced to live since the beginning of the twentieth century. In addition to accounts of the intimacies of everyday kinship and friendship, Course also offers the first complete ethnographic analyses of the major social events of contemporary rural Mapuche life - eluwun funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great ngillatun fertility ritual; This work blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=569519&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -