…attempted unsuccessfully to recover their seized territory through the Agrarian Reform. At the same time many Mapuche were migrating from the country to the city, and by the end of…
Language
…act as a noun, adjective or verb, while grammatical categories indicating gender, number and time are expressed using prefixes and suffixes. Rapa Nui is an oral language for everyday use….
Economía
…to capture smaller prey. But the bulk of their time was spent gathering fruit, nuts, seeds, wild potatoes and medicinal plants (notably boldo, peumus boldus), as well as freshwater mollusks….
Historia
…the mountains and forests of the island’s southern region, which led to territorial conflicts with other groups. Around the same time, the Salesian religious order founded missions on Dawson Island…
Culto y Funebria
…worship. Foremost among Selk’nam rites was the Hain, which has its origins in a Selk’nam myth that tells of a time when women reigned supreme through a matriarchy in which…
Social organization
…the group or inherited the title as the son or friend of a former chief. Marriage was allowed after coming of age, and at the same time a Kawésqar also…
History
…The term ‘Chango’ first appears in the middle of the seventeenth century in reference to a tribe occupying the coastal region between Copiapó and Coquimbo. Over time, use of…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…or witch-doctors. Funeral rites consist of four stages that take an entire year to complete. First, at the time of death the family sings and prays for a day and…
Social organization
…of external cultural patterns. These factors tend to weaken the cultural autonomy of the Atacameño people, but at the same time they allow traditional ways to be reorganized and restructured….
Economy
…scale bartering allowed access to products from distant regions, (particularly modern-day Bolivia and northwestern Argentina), while at the same time revitalizing social relations and interrelations among communities. In modern times,…
Art
…Until the time of the Spanish conquest, both men and women wore thick tunics made from llama or alpaca wool and drawn in at the waist with a woolen…
Social organization
…the church. Modern Aymara social organizations include urban associations created to assist highland residents who come to the city for a time, or to organize collective labor to help the…
The encounter
…(Kingdom of Chile), as though this human and geographical space had existed since time immemorial. The Europeans did not discover it. History did not begin in the desert, the valleys,…
Social organization
…seems to have remained virtually unchanged for an extremely long period of time. The arrival of the Inkas, and then the Spanish, caused the most profound changes, restricting the indigenous…
Arte
…Little material evidence remains from this time period. However, some implements have been found at the Monte Verde site, including bolas and other stone tools and wood and bone…
History
…groups amalgamated over time into larger units, and by 1893 there were just three Tehuelche communities. Two of these were forced to abandon their traditional nomadic way of life as…
Historia
…With the incorporation of their territory into the Inka Empire, the Diaguita became key agents in the Inka expansion into Central Chile. As a result, by the time the Spanish…
Environment and Location
…The first humans arrived in the Americas at a time when the glacial climate of the Pleistocene was beginning to improve. In Central Chile, the melting of the ice…
Environment and Location
…These early groups occupied the valleys and coast of Central Chile at a time when the climate was similar to the present but before human activity had eroded the…
Historia
…discoid stones suggests cultural relations with other groups that inhabited the Pacific coast of South America at roughly the same time and who inhabited sites such as the Huentelauquén complex…
Art
…The Alto Ramírez people became highly skilled in textile making. Their designs incorporated geometric and figurative motifs for the first time, including images of human faces with rays emanating…
Economy
…kinds of prey (open ocean fish species and whales). At the same time, the use of copper to make hooks and other tools enhanced their fishing activities, allowing them to…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…heads altogether. Alongside them they left a variety of grave goods that gives an indication of the range of objects these people manufactured. It is at this time that the…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…more complex ideology. The use of hallucinogenic powders inhaled through the nose (using tablets and tubes) appears to have become more prevalent as a ritual practice at this time, and…