Indagaciones en torno al significado del oro en la cultura mapuche

Una exploración de fuentes y algo más

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ID3008476
AuthorsGertrudis Payás (0000-0002-9117-8108, Universidad Católica de Temuco, corresponding author), Belén Villena (0000-0002-4295-2531, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso)
Year2021
Volume67
Pagese4253
Publication date2021-12-09
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEstudios Atacameños Arqueología y antropología surandinas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0716-0925 • E-ISSN: 0718-1043
PublisherUniversidad Catolica del Norte - Chile (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2021-0028
OpenAlexW3212308826
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited4

This paper is part of an interdisciplinary project of which one of the objectives is the identification of gold extracting sites south of the city of Concepción. It develops the hypothesis, put forward by archaeological studies, of possible gold mining by the Incas or even earlier, as opposed to an historiographical theory which claims that the Incas did not cross the Biobio river. Against this background, and considering that in the sixteenth century mapudungun was spoken in a much larger area than the one covered by our project, i.e. Araucania, we inquire on the conspicuous presence of the word milla (gold) in Mapudungun, and the extent of its significance in mapuche society, a society that, according to records, does not seem to have given gold the symbolic and material importance it had in Andean cultures. We undertake a review of the state of the question and systematize linguistic data provided by the lexicons and other texts, in an attempt to resolve, as much as possible, the uncertainties surrounding the word milla and the cultural significance of gold in mapuche society

Art · Humanities · Indigenous Cultures and History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy

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