2014
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12103
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The potency of indigenous “bibles” and biographies: Mapuche shamanic literacy and historical consciousness

Abstract: Mapuche oral shamanic biographies and performances—some of which take the form of “bibles” and involve shamanic literacies—play a central role in the production of indigenous history in southern Chile. In this article, I explain how and why a mixed‐race Mapuche shaman charged me with writing about her life and practice in the form of such a “bible.” This book would become a ritual object and a means of storing her shamanic power by textualizing it, thereby allowing her to speak to a future audience. The realit… Show more

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“…Similarly, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute's special issue entitled "Doubt, Conflict, Mediation" provides a robust analysis of modern time, making an overarching argument about its connections to capitalism and its roots in Christianity (Bear 2014). Here, too, indigeneity and its dual temporality-simultaneously cast as prior while being decidedly present 5 -took on special gravity, with Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (2014) examining the role given to "bibles" (indigenous sacred texts) and personal biography in Mapuche shamanic practice and the formation of historical consciousness. María Luz García (2014) similarly investigated the long life of historical memory in Ixhil Maya ceremonial speech.…”
Section: Endsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Similarly, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute's special issue entitled "Doubt, Conflict, Mediation" provides a robust analysis of modern time, making an overarching argument about its connections to capitalism and its roots in Christianity (Bear 2014). Here, too, indigeneity and its dual temporality-simultaneously cast as prior while being decidedly present 5 -took on special gravity, with Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (2014) examining the role given to "bibles" (indigenous sacred texts) and personal biography in Mapuche shamanic practice and the formation of historical consciousness. María Luz García (2014) similarly investigated the long life of historical memory in Ixhil Maya ceremonial speech.…”
Section: Endsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En el proceso de finalizar a la persona, existen varias etapas en el que alternan momentos de olvido y recuerdo del difunto (Bacigalupo 2010(Bacigalupo , 2014(Bacigalupo , 2016. Primero, se intenta borrar los recuerdos de esa persona en la comunidad, lo que implica "terminar" a la persona discursivamente inmediatamente después de su muerte y en presencia del cadáver, destruir los objetos de la persona, y no mencionar más el nombre del difunto o difunta y olvidarla (Bacigalupo 2010, 111;Bacigalupo 2014, 657).…”
Section: éEw Trufken Nge-tu-a-y-mi Ta Fachantüunclassified
“…Por esta razón, presentaré una definición del amulpüllün con base en trabajos etnográficos de Louis Faron (1964), Rolf Foerster (1993), Helmut Schindler (1996, Magnus Course (2011) y Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (2007Bacigalupo ( , 2010Bacigalupo ( , 2014Bacigalupo ( , 2016 en zonas mapuche de los valles interiores y la zona costera del lago Budi, sin desconocer que probablemente las etapas y las funciones de los rituales funerarios descritos en estos estudios difieren (y difirieron) de modo significativo de los que toman (y tomaron) lugar en territorio huilliche debido a los intensos procesos de colonización religiosa en esta zona. 4 A pesar de las limitaciones a los que conlleva la ausencia de estudios sobre el amulpüllün en la zona huilliche, lo que atañe a esta investigación no es comprobar hasta qué punto el amulpüllün en la obra de Huenún se asemeja al descrito por los estudios etnográficos mencionados, sino más bien reflexionar cómo Huenún recrea y actualiza en su escritura este ritual desde la perspectiva del mapuche en un contexto urbano y explorar las posibles motivaciones que llevan a este poeta a ello.…”
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“…In my area of study, Mapuche residents recognize both the threat of assimilation posed by the historical adoption of aspects of colonial culture and the possibility for their unproblematic inclusion within indigenous modes of sociality. The historical presence of biblical elements and Chilean flags in shamanic practices (Bacigalupo ) and the use of Chilean military uniforms by Mapuche caciques (Foerster and Menard ) are just two of many examples of the possible incorporation of Otherness in terms congruent with Mapuche cosmology, a prospect that evokes the general Amerindian phenomenon of “openness to the Other” (Lévi‐Strauss ). However, the adoption of documents is also associated with the phenomenon of becoming winkalike, a status consisting in the loss of essential Mapuche practices because of decades of discrimination and assimilatory policies in schools and workplace (Course ) .…”
Section: Documents Maps and Transactions In Land Claimsmentioning
confidence: 99%