Contemporary perspectives on the native peoples of Pampa, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego
Subtitle: living on the edge
By: edited by Claudia Briones and José Luis Lanata ; foreword by Laurie Weinstein.
Contributors: Briones, Claudia.; Lanata, José Luis.
Series: Native peoples of the Americas
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Argentina -- History.; Indians of South America -- Argentina -- Social conditions.; Indians of South America -- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Social conditions.; Indians of South America -- Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile) -- Social conditions.; Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Social conditions.; Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: Living on the edge (still) / Claudia Briones and José Luis Lanata; title: Official policies in the seizure and control of Indian territories of northern Patagonia / Raúl Díaz and Carlos Falaschi; title: Araucanization and nation, or how to inscribe foreign Indians upon the Pampas during the last century / Axel Lazzari and Diana Lenton; title: Mortuary rituals among the southern Tehuelche / Celia N. Priegue; title: Religion and kinship in the Mapuche culture / Graciela Beatriz Hernández; title: Myth and history: the expression of contact in the Elal cycle / Alejandra Siffredi; title: Economic relations, cooperation, and reciprocity in Mapuche communities / Sabine Kradolfer; title: Pulmarí: protected indigenous territory / Coordinación de Organizaciones Mapuche; title: "We are neither an ethnic group nor a minority, but a pueblo-nación originario." The cultural politics of organizations with Mapuche philosophy and leadership / Claudia Briones; title: Interethnic relations in Native-American populations of Argentine Patagonia: a genetic demographic analysis / Francisco R. Carnese, Alicia L. Caratini, and Alicia S. Goicoechea; title: Aspects of ergativity in Tehuelche / Ana Fernández Garay; title: From secrecy to public performance: the political uses of Mapudungun / Lucía A. Golluscio.