Based upon thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among indigenous Mapuche people
of southern Chile, this thesis explores two relational oppositions which are central concerns
of both Mapuche people and the discipline of anthropology. The first opposition explored is
that between self and other, focusing on how it is conceived differently from different
positions within rural Mapuche life. Through this exploration, I emphasise an understanding
of otherness as a relational category, which is more connected to ascertaining and …