Mapuches in Mendoza? Territorial conflicts and denialism in a "Creole province" Julieta Magallanes. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sb. 2024, 192 Pages

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Mariela Eva Rodriguez

Abstract

This book provides conceptual tools and factual data that allow for a more sophisticated debate that has become public at a national level and, for this reason, is particularly important in the current context, where concerns have been magnified not only about whether there are Mapuches in Mendoza, but also about the legitimacy of indigenous peoples in general. At present, we find ourselves facing a government administration that multiplies disqualifying sentences that flatly deny such a possibility. This attack devastates the rights of indigenous peoples and a history of resistance that involved several generations and, in the same blow, also devastates the scientific system that enabled serious and informed research to challenge prejudices installed by colonial science and local power structures.

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Rodriguez, M. E. (2025). Mapuches in Mendoza? Territorial conflicts and denialism in a "Creole province". Memorias Disidentes. Revista De Estudios críticos Del Patrimonio, Archivos Y Memorias, 2(3), 262-270. Retrieved from https://ojs.unsj.edu.ar/index.php/Mdis/article/view/MapucheenMendoza.M.Rodriguez.MD%2Cenero2025
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Author Biography

Mariela Eva Rodriguez, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET); University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL), Institute of Anthropological Sciences (ICA), Ethnology Section

She is an Adjunct Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), working in the Ethnology Section of the Institute of Anthropological Sciences of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, of the University of Buenos Aires (ICA, FFyL, UBA). She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology of the same faculty and has taught at other universities in Argentina and the United States. She has received scholarships for academic training and research in both countries and has directed research projects in Argentina and the United Kingdom. Since 1996 she has been conducting ethnography with indigenous peoples of southern Patagonia and, since 2014, also with the Charrúa people of Uruguay from a collaborative approach. Since 2008, she has coordinated, together with other researchers, the network Group of Studies on Altered and Subordinated Memories (GEMAS) and, since 2017, she has been a member of the coordinating group of the Network of Information and Discussion on Archaeology and Heritage (RIDAP).

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