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Visiones De Pertenencia: Comunidad Tras Las Palabras De Personas Mapuche, Marissa Brodney
Visiones De Pertenencia: Comunidad Tras Las Palabras De Personas Mapuche, Marissa Brodney
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Central to the Mapuche reclamations of ancestral territory happening now in Patagonia are notions of “community”. Recognition, on the one hand, of an indigenous right to re-appropriate state land implies historical consciousness of indigenous pueblo preexistence, and the imposition of national communities in which indigenous groups do not find representation. Secondly: in recent decades, the “community” has become a strategic point of reference in the legal and political arenas in which reclamations are registered. A result of the struggles of indigenous activists of the past few decades, official recognition as an indigenous community implies recognition of unique rights. Thirdly: resulting …