Piergiorgio Di Giminiani

Sentient Lands

Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides an historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people's engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyses environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and indigeneity to illustrate how land connections are articulated, both in landscape experiences and in land claims.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780816535521
• ISBN-10: 0816535523
• Artikelnr.: 52422297

Autorenporträt

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani is an associate professor of anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sentient Lands
Part I. People and Land
1. Historical Debts: Race, Land, and Nation Building in Southern Chile
2. Being from the Land: Place, Memory, and Experience
3. Working the Land: Environmental Anxieties, Care, and the Quest for
Endurance
4. Owning the Land: Entitlement, Assimilation, and Other Dilemmas of
Property
Part II. Land Claims
5. Mapping Ancestral Land: The Power of Documents in Land Claims
6. Negotiating Ancestral Land: Claimants, Bureaucrats, and the Realpolitik
of Sacredness
7. The Future of Ancestral Land: Uncertainties of World Making in a
Reclaimed Territory
Glossary
Notes
References
Index