Accusing and Identifying the Kalku: The Perception of Sorcery in Mapuche Society (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries).

This article examines accusations of sorcery as a way to understand the perceptions of sorcery among the Mapuche of central-southern Chile during the colonial period. Local communities believed that illnesses and unfortunate events were caused by the actions of sorcerers, known as kalku, and therefo...

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Publicado en:Ethnohistory Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 385 - 406
Autor principal: Ambrogio, Oriol
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Publicado: Duke University Press Jul2021
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