Retrato íntimo: La guerra de Arauco.

This photographic documentary realised in indigenous communities mapuche (men of the earth), pewenche (men of the pehuén) and williche (men of the south) of Chile, invites to see how the mapuche people are inserted in the present Chilean culture and its postmodernity; how they celebrate, how they live today, how they have had to confront for more than five centuries, all of these impoverished them. Fight indigenous against system consists of to maintain his culture, his language, his traditions in a country that has carefully divided them, discriminated them and supported policies that historically leave them unprotected, have usurped his earth with laws that divides his lof (social unit territorial that frames a community of people who are related), which has disarmed its social and institutional structures. This ethnic group is conscious of the responsibility to inherit to her children her culture to continue existing. The Arauco War still continues, they keep fighting in conditions of extreme poverty, earth men, without earth.

Palabras Claves
mapuche
photography
Arauco
conflict.
Autor
Claudia Astete. Fotógrafa. Escuela de Foto Arte de Chile.
Recibido
Aceptado
Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual - número 13 - Santiago, junio 2009 - 129/163 pp.- ISSN 0718-876x. Rev. chil. antropol. vis.