Monuments, Empires, and Resistance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521872621)

From AD 1550 to 1850, the Araucanian polity in southern Chile was a center of political resistance to the intruding Spanish empire. In this book, Tom D. Dillehay examines the resistance strategies of the Araucanians and how they used mound building and other sacred monuments to reorganize their political and culture life in order to unite against the Spanish. Drawing on anthropological research conducted over three decades, Dillehay focuses on the development of leadership, shamanism, ritual, and power relations.

Author: Tom D. Dillehay
ISBN-10: 0521872626
ISBN-13: 9780521872621
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2007
Pages: 506
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 10.21h x 7.38w x 1.18d