Magnus Course

TL;DR: The amulpullun biographical oratory which takes place at Mapuche funerals in southern Chile is said to complete the person as discussed by the authors, which challenges the assumption that mortuary practices necessarily constitute a form of analysis, a division of the component parts of the social person.

TL;DR: The authors explored the role of analogies derived from language in the ethnographic description and analysis of non-Western ontologies, focusing on the rhetorical analogy of subject and object central to descriptions of Amerindian perspectival ontologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ rural Mapuche ideas about language to cast new light on the nature of agency and authority in lowland South America and elsewhere and demonstrate the need to account for the roles of priest, chief, and shaman from the perspective of their differential modes of relating through language.

TL;DR: Ngillanwen and Eluwun as discussed by the authors proposed a glossary of terms in Mapudungun Bibliography to describe the sociality of similarity and kinship.

TL;DR: The last time I saw Alfredo was in the orchard behind his mother's house, and a crowd of people slowly gathered and stared, and Luis turned away, muttering, “This is what becomes of clowns.” For, according to rural Mapuche people with whom I lived, behind the hilarity, joy, and chaos of their ritual actions, the lot of the clown, koyong, is not a happy one.