Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE PROSPECTS AND PATTERNS
- ONE PURPOSES, SETTINGS, AND DEFINITIONS
- TWO SHAPING ANALOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
- THREE ARAUCANIAN PREHISTORY AND HISTORY: OLD BIASES AND NEW VIEWS
- FOUR IMBRICATING SOCIAL, MATERIAL, METAPHORICAL, AND SPIRITUAL WORLDS
- FIVE THE ETHNOGRAPHIES OF KUEL, NARRATIVES, AND COMMUNITIES
- SIX AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL VIEW OF KUEL AND REHUEKUEL
- PART TWO ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
- Appendix One Ethnographic Ritual Narratives at Hualonkokuel and Trentrenkuel
- Appendix Two Radiocarbon Dates and Thermoluminescence Dates
- References Cited
- Index
THREE - ARAUCANIAN PREHISTORY AND HISTORY: OLD BIASES AND NEW VIEWS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE PROSPECTS AND PATTERNS
- ONE PURPOSES, SETTINGS, AND DEFINITIONS
- TWO SHAPING ANALOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
- THREE ARAUCANIAN PREHISTORY AND HISTORY: OLD BIASES AND NEW VIEWS
- FOUR IMBRICATING SOCIAL, MATERIAL, METAPHORICAL, AND SPIRITUAL WORLDS
- FIVE THE ETHNOGRAPHIES OF KUEL, NARRATIVES, AND COMMUNITIES
- SIX AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL VIEW OF KUEL AND REHUEKUEL
- PART TWO ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
- Appendix One Ethnographic Ritual Narratives at Hualonkokuel and Trentrenkuel
- Appendix Two Radiocarbon Dates and Thermoluminescence Dates
- References Cited
- Index
Summary
Historically, from pre-Columbian times to the present, all of Latin America passed through colonial and frontier stages of kaleidoscopic variety, each shaped by a particular combination of physical and human environments. Some regions within Latin America experienced several types of colonial politics, ranging from total defeat and decimation of the indigenous population in the Caribbean to passive mutualism and peaceful change in most of Paraguay to strong, prolonged resistance to all outsiders in south-central Chile. These experiences led to many transformations along geopolitical frontiers, where different modes of organizing societies competed with one another. It was the power of colonial frontiers to transform cultures as well as themselves that give them special interest (Comaroff 1998; Cooper 2005). In some places the actions of frontier peoples transformed political and economic institutions well beyond the frontier itself, contributing to national cultures and shaping a people's understanding of their identity. Larger historical processes also shaped the lives of frontier peoples, often as a result of decisions made by policymakers in distant centers of political, economic, or cultural power such as Spain and Portugal. Relatively peaceful accommodation and mutual acculturation characterized Spanish–Indian relations along some frontiers; a state of ongoing, low-intensity warfare typified other frontiers (Ribeiro 1973). One of those war zones was the Araucanian–Spanish frontier, which was the longest standing and most resistant political frontier in American colonial history.
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- Monuments, Empires, and ResistanceThe Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives, pp. 81 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007