Monuments, Empires, and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives

Abstract

Introduction 1. Purposes, settings, and definitions 2. Shaping analogical and conceptual perspectives 3. Araucanian prehistory and history: old biases and new views 4. Imbricating social, material, metaphorical, and spiritual worlds 5. The ethnographies of kuel, narratives, and communities 6. An archaeological view of kuel and rehuekuel 7. Contact, fragmentation, and recruitment and the rehuekuel 8. Recursiveness, kinship geographies, and polity 9. Epilogue and dying mounds.