When a Flower Is Reborn - The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist

"A landmark in the history of social movements, indigenous studies, and women's studies, "When a Flower is Reborn" tells the story of the cultural regeneration of a whole people. The match between a sophisticated scholar drawn back to the country of her birth and an urbane indigenous woman organizer has engendered an entirely new form of testimonial literature, one that reads like a novel, but has the depth and breadth of the best history. This is not only an innovative book, it is a major achievement."--Temma Kaplan, author of "Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements"

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Editor’s Introduction 1

1. Chanco: Family, Land, and Culture 35

2. The Mapuche Movement under Dictatorship, 1973-1989 100

3. The Transition to Democracy 175

4. The Mapuche Movement under Democracy, 1990-1998 223

Conclusion 294

Afterword 327

Glossary 337

Notes 343

Index 363

About the author

Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef, Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Florencia E. Mallon

Summary

Testimonial text by a Mapuche woman, with commentary and other ethnographic interventions by a US historian.

Product details

• Authors: Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef, Isolde Reuque, Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef, Rosa Isoldereuque Paillalef
• Assisted by: Florencia E Mallon (Editor), Florencia E. Mallon (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2002
• EAN: 9780822329343
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2934-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Weight: 816 g
• Illustrations: 36 b&w photos
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies