Coronavirus y wigka küxan: la percepción mapuche de la pandemia

The tendency to impose measures designed from rich contexts to contain this type of pandemics ignores that a large part of the vulnerability of Amerindian peoples derives from the precarious economic, social and political conditions they have at their disposal to resolve them autonomously. This work...

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Autor principal:	Jesús Antona Bustos
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2021
Materias:	Indigenous peoples Mapuche coronavirus intercultural health indigenous rights Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:87618f2da8904d189b641147e87aaf002021-12-02T10:38:44ZCoronavirus y wigka küxan: la percepción mapuche de la pandemia1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.84740https://doaj.org/article/87618f2da8904d189b641147e87aaf002021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/84740https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252The tendency to impose measures designed from rich contexts to contain this type of pandemics ignores that a large part of the vulnerability of Amerindian peoples derives from the precarious economic, social and political conditions they have at their disposal to resolve them autonomously. This work focuses on the case of the Mapuche people of Chile and how they perceive the global pandemic from their local contexts, taking as a source their discursive production on the Internet, which is characterized by its immediacy and for being conceived for action. I will focus especially on some cultural and political representations of the coronavirus and on the socio-cultural relevance of the measures adopted for its prevention in the first months of the pandemic. From the different histories and communications it is clear that the past and the present overlap and that the disease is conceived within a continuum of dispossession and violence; hence the concept that best allows this pandemic to be framed within Mapuche culture is that of wigka küxan: the disease of colonialism and dependency.Jesús Antona BustosCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleIndigenous peoplesMapuchecoronavirusintercultural healthindigenous rightsAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2021)
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description	The tendency to impose measures designed from rich contexts to contain this type of pandemics ignores that a large part of the vulnerability of Amerindian peoples derives from the precarious economic, social and political conditions they have at their disposal to resolve them autonomously. This work focuses on the case of the Mapuche people of Chile and how they perceive the global pandemic from their local contexts, taking as a source their discursive production on the Internet, which is characterized by its immediacy and for being conceived for action. I will focus especially on some cultural and political representations of the coronavirus and on the socio-cultural relevance of the measures adopted for its prevention in the first months of the pandemic. From the different histories and communications it is clear that the past and the present overlap and that the disease is conceived within a continuum of dispossession and violence; hence the concept that best allows this pandemic to be framed within Mapuche culture is that of wigka küxan: the disease of colonialism and dependency.
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title	Coronavirus y wigka küxan: la percepción mapuche de la pandemia
title_short	Coronavirus y wigka küxan: la percepción mapuche de la pandemia
title_full	Coronavirus y wigka küxan: la percepción mapuche de la pandemia
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Coronavirus y wigka küxan: la percepción mapuche de la pandemia

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