Abstract

SKEWES, Juan Carlos. Residences in the Chilean mountain system: The logic behind inhabiting the Mapuche territories in the Chilean temperate forest. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2016, n.26, pp.133-154. ISSN 1900-5407.  https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda26.2016.06.

Under a materialist viewpoint, the ruka or Mapuche dwelling in the Andean template forests of southern Chile is revisited, enlarging the interpretative framework that until now has privileged the constructive dimensions of the dwelling. The ruka is an inflection in a residential practice that synthetize social relations, materialities and the environment. It is a constitutive part of a living landscape which carácter is socioenvironmental and that, from a comparative view, offers better protection of trees and humans in the context of native forest conservation. The results invite to integrate the study of residential practice not only as part of the nature surrounding the house, but also its dynamic, changing and fluid character that include humans, trees and other living organisms. The residential practice offers a dwelling model that provides better clues for the protection of the forest and of the people that live in it.

Keywords : Housing; materialism; ethnography; Mapuche; template forest.

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