Abstract

DUQUESNOY, Michel. Resiliencia cultural comunitaria como quehacer político femenino de las mujeres williche del Chaurakawin (Región de los Lagos, Chile). Cuicuilco [online]. 2014, vol.21, n.59, pp.65-91. ISSN 0185-1659.

If resilience is the human capacity to deal with the adversities of life, overcome them and transform oneself positively because of them, then the context of singular stigmatization that affects the Mapuche Williche society and many of its women, allows questioning the motives of women's increasingly important presence and actions as current political actnnsts. It is also important to reflect on the manifestations of this empowerment and the eventual consequences of the same for the Mapuche Williche people and their struggles to achieve an honorable degree of recognition and autonomy. This essay presents reflections, discussions and hypotheses on today's notable emergence of Williche women's political visibility, presenting them as the promoters of a complex process of community cultural resilience, that may possibly interface with intercultural processes, which must be studied at greater length. Parts of this text were presented and discussed at the Tenth Chilean-Argentinian Conference of Historical Studies and Cultural Integration held in Pucón, Chile, April 17,18 and 19, 2013.

Keywords : Mapuche Huilliche women; resilience; empowerment; stigmatization; subordinate groups.

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