Mapuche ceremonial landscape, social recruitment and resource rights

Abstract

A summary of the main variables accounting for the construction and distribution of historic and contemporary ceremonial fields and earthen burial mounds in the Mapuche society of Chile is presented. This study reveals that monument building is related to the changing social relations between different groups and to a set of historically contingent factors ‐ i.e., long‐term kinship sedimentation, residential contiguity of related lineages, protection of land use rights, and profitable alliance‐making and trade‐exchange affairs. Increased social and political complexity are achieved by a few local chiefs when they regulate the annual itinerary of multiple ceremonial events at special ceremonial sites. The corresponding spatial and architectural expressions of these relations are discussed, as well as their broader implications.

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