INVESTIGADORES
GOLLUSCIO lucia Angela
capítulos de libros
Título:
From secrecy to public performance: The political uses of Mapudungun
Autor/es:
GOLLUSCIO LUCIA
Libro:
Contemporary Perspectives on the Native Peoples of Pampa, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego. Living on the Edge. Native Peoples of Pampa, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego
Editorial:
Greenwood Publishing Group
Referencias:
Lugar: Westport; Año: 2002; p. 149 - 163
Resumen:
This paper focuses on a particular Mapuche public performance, the "Stature of the Lof Ñorkinko", a document presented to the Argentine National Institute for Indigenous Affairs by the lof (community in Mapuche language) as a petition for legal recognition as a preexisting people. Through the analysis of this document I will explore the discursive and meta-discursive construction of new social stratgias in the relationship between aboriginal peoples and Argentine national society. I am especially concerned with the use of written Mapudungun (and Spanish) as a means of indexing language and culture in performance and orienting the audience´s interpretation in accordance with the addresser´s goals. Such goals are both rhetorical (in the classic meaning) and political, since the discourse ins sturctured and shaped to claim and exercise Mapuche human (now constitutional) rights.