Cultural configurations in indigenous communication. Resistance and autonomy among communicators from Wallmapu1

Abstract

This work contributes to understand the communicative processes that take place in the intercultural and inter-ethnic Chilean-Mapuche conflict. We present an analysis of the results of ten interviews with Mapuche communicators. The discussion focuses on problematizing three topics: identity, technology and communication. The results establish that communication mediated by technology is a field of dispute that contributes to the struggle of the Mapuche people for the reconstruction of Wallmapu.