Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile

By: Course, Magnus

An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failure through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clown, and usurper

How do we learn what failure looks like? During the years anthropologist Magnus Course spent living with Indigenous Mapuche people in southern Chile, he came to understand failure--both his own and those of the discipline of anthropology--through Mapuche narratives of the witch, the clown, and the usurper. In a context...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512826561
• ISBN13: 9781512826562
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"