| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Historical debts: race, land, and nation building in Southern Chile -- Being from the land: place, memory, and experience -- Working the land: environmental anxieties, care, and the quest for endurance -- Owning the land: entitlement, assimilation, and other dilemmas of property -- Mapping ancestral land: the power of documents in land claims -- Negotiating ancestral land: claimants, bureaucrats, and the realpolitik of sacredness -- The future of ancestral land: uncertainties of world making in a reclaimed territory |
| Summary |
In 1990, when Augusto Pinochet's 17-year military dictatorship ended, democratic rule returned to Chile. Since then, Indigenous organizations have mobilized to demand restitution of their ancestral territories seized over the past 150 years. Sentient Lands is a historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people's engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyzes environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and indigeneity to illustrate how land connections are articulated, in both landscape experiences and land claims. Rather than viewing land claims as simply bureaucratic procedures imposed on local understandings and experiences of land connections, Di Giminiani reveals these processes to be disputed practices of world making. Ancestral land formation is set in motion by the entangled principles of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, two very different and sometimes conflicting processes. Indigenous land ontologies are based on a relation between two subjects--land and people--both endowed with sentient abilities. By contrast, legal land ontologies are founded on the principles of property theory, wherein land is an object of possession that can be standardized within a regime of value. Governments also use land claims to domesticate Indigenous geographies into spatial constructs consistent with political and market configurations. Exploring the unexpected effects on political activism and state reparation policies caused by this entanglement of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, Di Giminiani offers a new analytical angle on Indigenous land politics |
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"An ethnographic look at Chile's Mapuche people and how they engage with state-run land restitution efforts via political activism"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mapuche Indians -- Land tenure -- Government policy -- Chile
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Mapuche Indians -- Chile -- Government relations
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Mapuche Indians -- Chile -- Politics and government
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Mapuche Indians -- Chile -- Social conditions
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Mapuche Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Chile
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Reparations for historical injustices -- Chile
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Mapuche Indians -- Government relations.
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Mapuche Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Mapuche Indians -- Politics and government.
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Mapuche Indians -- Social conditions.
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Reparations for historical injustices.
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Chile.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816539116 |
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0816539111 |
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9780816535521 |
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0816535523 |
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