The Mapuche Indians of Chile
By: by Louis C. Faron
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Mapuche Indians -- Social life and customs
Notes: Bibliography: p. 112-113
Table of contents: title: Preview : the changing culture and society -- Studying the Mapuche. Introduction -- The land and the people -- Going about the study -- Principal informants -- Warfare and peace. Military resistance to conquest -- Pacification -- Agriculture. Agricultural techniques and goals -- Traditional cooperation among neighbors -- Cooperation with Chileans -- Descent and descent groups. Patrilineal principles and groupings -- Lineages and sublineages -- Lineage-based kinship relationships -- Dominant and subordinate lineages -- Residence patterns. Patrilocality -- Uxorilocal residence -- The status of women. Unmarried women -- Married women -- Sex and courtship. Illicit sexual relations : Chilean views -- Illicit sexual relations : Mapuche views -- Courtship -- Marriage. Matrilateral marriage -- Marriage negotiations -- Secondary marriage, separation, divorce -- Domestic life. Family types -- Family interrelationships -- Socialization of children -- Working for wages -- Political life. Preservation times -- The reservation period -- Chieftainship today -- Alternatives to traditional political organization -- Gods and the afterworld. Names and the attributes of the gods -- Ancestors’ spirits -- Forces of evil -- Shamanism. The shaman’s art -- Training of the shaman -- The status of shamans -- Sorcery. The sorcerer’s art -- Solidary and disruptive aspects of sorcery -- Death and burial rites. The rationale -- The assemblage -- Funeral services -- Fertility rites. Agricultural fertility ceremonies -- Overview.