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Resistencia: una respuesta indígena al neoliberalismo. El caso mapuche
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1511-541X
2015 (Spanish)In: Especiaria: Cadernos de Ciências Humanas, ISSN 1517-5081, Vol. 14, no 25, p. 33-51Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

El presente artículo trata sobre globalización, neoliberalismo y resistenciacultural; enfoca al Machi, autoridad espiritual portador(a) de milenarios conocimientosy saberes, que salvaguarda desde tiempos inmemoriales la práctica espiritual, lasanación y la cultura. En Chile, en el territorio mapuche, en las zonas de resistenciacultural, se multiplican los conflictos y es así que las autoridades espirituales percibenla amenaza de extinción física y cultural. En el marco de conflicto y como producto dela intervención de las empresas transnacionales en territorios indígenas, el chamán ensu rol de agente político comunitario opera como arquitecto de la geografía simbólicacontrarrestando la noción de ingeniería social de los arquitectos neoliberales. Somostestigos de una rearticulación de la comunidad socio espiritual en la que hoy las/losMachi asumen un nuevo protagonismo, en la defensa de la madre tierra (Ñuke Mapu).

Abstract [en]

This article is about globalization, neoliberalism and cultural resistancewith focus on Machi, spiritual authority holder of ancient knowledge and wisdom,who since immemorial times safeguards the spiritual practice, healing powers andculture. In Chile, in the Mapuche territory and in the areas of cultural resistance,conflicts increase so that the spiritual authorities perceive the danger of physicaland cultural extinction. In the context of conflict and as a result of the penetrationof transnational corporations in indigenous territories, the shaman, in his role as acommunity political agent, operates as symbolic geography architect counteringthe neoliberal social engineering. We are witnessing a re-articulation of the sociospiritualcommunity in which the Machi plays a new role in the defense of MotherEarth (Ñuke Mapu).

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Ilhéus, Bahia, Brasil: Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz , 2015. Vol. 14, no 25, p. 33-51
Keywords [es]
globalización, neoliberalismo, resistencia cultural, chamanidad, mapuche
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Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-26079OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-26079DiVA, id: diva2:860719
Available from: 2015-10-13 Created: 2015-10-13 Last updated: 2015-10-14Bibliographically approved

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