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The “mapucheisation” of society in contemporary Chile

The article discusses the complex socio-political position of the Mapuche people in Chile, who appear as a symbol of struggle, resistance and as a political player demanding fundamental political change in the country. The first part of the article focuses on the historical context of the Mapuche people in Chile and on an overview of their socio-political movement in the past and in the present, while the second part analyses various aspects of the processes of indigenisation and “Mapucheisation” of Chilean society. In the last section, these two processes are analysed with the help of ethnographic material collected between 2019 and 2022 in Santiago de Chile, on the basis of which it is possible to isolate three different – and often conflicting – perspectives of the current processes of indigenisation and “Mapucheisation” in Chile.