| Sumario: | The commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile once again brought to the fore the issue of political violence during this period, but there have been few commemorative events in which the ethnic variable of repression and its impact on daily life of the victimized indigenous communities. Therefore, this work aims to provide an intercultural vision of human rights violations in indigenous contexts based on the possibilities offered by ethnographic methodology. The ethnographic material comes from several seasons of fieldwork in Araucanía in which a series of cases that occurred in Mapuche communities during the military dictatorship were recorded, as well as from participant observation with Mapuche and non-Mapuche human rights organizations in relation whit processes to justice and reparation. Finally, it is intended to offer an ontological approach to the field of human rights and political violence taking as reference the information accumulated by the tradition of Amerindian studies, in which topics such as corporality, illness, non-humans, the concept of person or dreams, constitute privileged spaces to explore the meaning that indigenous peoples give to this type of situations.
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