Historia (Santiago) (Aug 2003)

EN TORNO A LA ASIMETRÍA DE LOS GÉNEROS EN LA SOCIEDAD MAPUCHE DEL PERÍODO DE LA CONQUISTA HISPANA

  • FRANCIS GOICOVICH VIDELA

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 36
pp. 159 – 178

Abstract

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The primacy of masculine gender in almost every domain of culture is an universal phenomenon: men and women participate in differentiated value systems which, according to Marvin Harris, are grounded in the exclusive practice of war by men. The mapuche society in the conquest days was not an exception, and the ideology behind their social practices determined an asymmetry between both genders. centrality of civil legislation for the consolidation of the new order in the continent