Epistemología Mapuche: sabiduría y conocimientos

This is the first document that presents the Mapuche worldview and ways of thinking written by a member of that people, drawing on the sources of the author’s own culture and life: on the one hand, his grandmother, the machi, kimche, weupin, ancient leaders, and other wise men and specialists, in addition to his own experience in Mapuche mythologies and rituals. Underlying the organization of the knowledge presented here are the pewma (dreams), the nütram (conversations), elaborated and transmitted through generations. Thus, he expounds the philosophy or meaning of Mapuche life, within which language holds fundamental importance. It is from Mapuzungun (the speech of the earth) that the meanings and orientations for thinking about the universe and all things emerge, and then from its signs and their representations, the understanding of the ways of inhabiting the Mapuche world will begin.