Courage Tastes of Blood The Mapuche Community of Nicolas Ailio And the Chilean State, 1906-2001

"Courage Tastes of Bloodexplores how ordinary, marginalized indigenous peoples in Chile construct historical memory in small, discontinuous steps, a process which enables them to sustain a 'politics of difference' in a world where globalization threatens to further homogenize diversity in the name of economic progress and stability. Following this logic in her own practice, Florencia E. Mallon highlights the importance of everyday practices in understanding oral sources, and, in so doing, she challenges readers to reconsider the preconceptions of history as a field of knowledge that reproduces the rationality of power. This is a bold, fascinating, and highly original contribution to our understanding of indigenous lives, repression in Chile, and racism, and it provides a methodological lesson in rethinking fields of inquiry from the perspective of alternative knowledge producers."-Arturo Arias, past president of the Latin American Studies AssociationMallon, Florencia E. is the author of 'Courage Tastes of Blood The Mapuche Community of Nicolas Ailio And the Chilean State, 1906-2001', published 2005 under ISBN 9780822335740 and ISBN 0822335743.