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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Published in:	Ethnohistory Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 385 - 406
Main Author:	Ambrogio, Oriol
Format:	Article
Published:	Duke University Press Jul2021
Subjects:	Chile Colonization Mapuche (South American people) Indigenous peoples of South America History of imperialism Wizards
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