Entrelazando mundos a través del Lawen. Procesos políticos y afectivos de la memoria.

Abstract

This thesis is about a process of restoring memories and about the ways in which, when remembering as a group, certain Mapuche people define, reinforce and / or resignify the shared senses of territoriality. The practices of memory that I describe begin to transform into common stories from a specific event, which, from now on, I will call "the Mapuche defense of the lawen". With this word in Mapuzungun (Mapuche language) the Mapuche plants, practices and medicinal knowledge are named. The fact that the State is unaware of the existence of the law or what is interpreted within the economic, political and scientific frameworks as ethnocentric as they are limited, a spontaneous protest movement among patients of different machi (ancestral authority competent in health and disease issues ), relatives and other Mapuche militants.