The land inside
Mapuche memory and territory in Adriana Paredes Pinda'sParias Zugun
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178072 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alejandro Echeverria (0000-0003-4866-8520, Wake Forest University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 282-304 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-2222 • E-ISSN: 1744-2230 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17442222.2018.1499594 |
| OpenAlex | W2884725491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
In recent decades, the Mapuche people’s demand for the return of ancestral territories has intensified. This article examines how Adriana Paredes Pinda’s poetry anthology Parias Zugun gives voice to Mapuche spirits that inhabit the land, and how she conceptualizes landscapes as spaces that preserve the memory of important past and present events that constitute the Mapuche historic memory: the foundational story of Treng-Treng and Kay-Kay, the 1960 Valdivia earthquake and flooding, and the current destruction of forests in southern Chile. This article also explores the associations that Paredes Pinda establishes between these events, arguing that through her emphasis on the ancestral ties that bind Mapuche communities to their territory, she legitimizes Mapuche territorial claims. The parallels her poetry establishes across landscapes and among contemporary and ancient events warn readers of the cyclical nature of events in Mapuche history and of the need to restore the land’s equilibrium, currently disrupted by the forestry companies’ interventions
Art · Ethnology · Geography · Literature · Parallels · Poetry · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · History · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |