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...
| Publicado en: | Ethnohistory Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 385 - 406 |
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Duke University Press
Jul2021
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