Mapuche struggles to obliterate dominant history: mythohistory, spiritual agency and shamanic historical consciousness in southern Chile
Identities February 1, 2013 Ana Mariella Bacigalupo 10 citations
The biographical mythohistory of Rosa Kurin, an ethnically mixed Mapuche-German shaman in southern Chile in the late 1800s, expresses a ‘shamanic historical consciousness’ that advances current debates over the dynamic relationship between history and myth and between indigenous and national history. Biographical mythohistory is a mixed genre that mediates among different memoralisations of the...
DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2012.757551 (opens in new tab)
Shamanism
Indigenous
Agency philosophy
Politics
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