ISBN:
9780511499715
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 484 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in archaeology
DDC:
983/.0049872
Keywords:
Geschichte 1550-1850
;
Araukaner
;
Spanier
;
Siedlung
;
Schamanismus
;
Kolonisation
;
Widerstand
;
Chile
Abstract:
From AD 1550 to 1850, the Araucanian polity in southern Chile was a center of political resistance to the intruding Spanish empire. In this 2007 book, Tom D. Dillehay examines the resistance strategies of the Araucanians and how they used mound building and other sacred monuments to reorganize their political and culture life in order to unite against the Spanish. Drawing on anthropological research conducted over three decades, Dillehay focuses on the development of leadership, shamanism, ritual, and power relations. His study combines developments in social theory with the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records. Both theoretically and empirically informed, this book is a fascinating account of the only indigenous ethnic group to successfully resist outsiders for more than three centuries and to flourish under these conditions.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499715
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