Grafismo, multitemporalidad y textos como objetos de poder en la biografía de una Machi Mapuche en Chile

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ID6166465
AuthorsAna Mariella Bacigalupo (0009-0008-3704-6631, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume0
Issue31
Publication date2016-05-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Chilena de Antropología (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0716-3312 • E-ISSN: 0719-1472
PublisherUniversidad de Chile (PUBLISHER • CL)
DOI10.5354/0719-1472.2015.40604
OpenAlexW4246833951
LanguageES
References cited45

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 realities and powers her “bible” stored could be extracted, transformed, circulated, and actualized for a variety of ends, even to bring about shamanic rebirth. Ultimately, I argue, through their use and interpretation of this kind of “bible”, Mapuche shamans expand academic notions of indigenous history and literacy

Archaeology · Art · Humanities · Indigenous · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Shamanism · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · History · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics · Philosophy

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