Marriage and politics in the genesis of two Mapuche groups during the 19th century

  • Martha Bechis Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UBA
Keywords: matrimony, politics, Mapuche groups, 19th century

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to find out the senseof atypical Mapuche marriages -a case of patrilateral marriage and several polyandries- during the construction of two moieties of Chilean Indians located in Buenos Aires' frontier in the second third of  Nineteenth-Century. Alternative hypothesis were managed in order to find the one that could fit to reconstruct an appropriete marriage system that expresses the history of a moiety. That was an ethnographic job held from a wide ethnohistorical approach. Marriages were manipulated in order to build an elite within a non-state society. The conclusion is that those atypical marriages had a peculiar political meaning that helped to consolidate dominant familiar groups in both moieties. 

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Published
1994-08-01
How to Cite
Bechis, M. (1994). Marriage and politics in the genesis of two Mapuche groups during the 19th century. Memoria Americana. Cuadernos De Etnohistoria, 3, 41-62. Retrieved from http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/MA/article/view/13129
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