Abstract

VALENZUELA VAN TREEK, Esteban Manuel; GONZALEZ GONZALEZ, Jaime Andrés  and  MELLA ABALOS, Magaly. Juxtaposed Political Structures within Indigenous Culture. The Mapuche Case in Chile. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2021, vol.66, n.241, pp.381-404.  Epub Mar 19, 2021. ISSN 0185-1918.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2020.241.69986.

The article aims to carry out an initial analysis of the juxtaposed power structures present in the Mapuche culture in Chile. For this we use a secondary data set, rescued both from bibliographic debates and from documents by corporate authors. The analysis identifies a series of organizations and indigenous subjects as spatial and cultural articulators of other ethnic groups within the larger society in which they are inserted. On this basis, a theoretical model of indigenous political culture based on the historical resistance to the assimilation of the state is proposed. The article concludes that the observable juxtaposed power structures in the Mapuche case report a political management of culture, which allows establishing borders to defend organic autonomy against state action.

Keywords : political structures; indigenous political culture; Mapuches.

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