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Mapuche Foodways in Argentina

Ethnolinguistic

The Mapuche live on both sides of the Andes and their foodways span Argentina and Chile — ⚠ ONE PEOPLE, TWO STATES, and the border is a fact about states. In Argentina, chiefly in Neuquén, Río Negro and Chubut: PIÑONES, the large edible seeds of the PEHUÉN or monkey-puzzle araucaria, gathered in autumn and boiled, roasted or ground to flour, which are central to the PEHUENCHE and are a protected tree; muday, the fermented grain drink; merkén-type smoked ají; wild berries including maqui and calafate; mushrooms; sheep and horse. ⚠ Land, water and forest rights are actively contested and are part of this foodway.

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Communities and languages

  • Mapuche community documented
  • Pehuenche community documented

Languages: Mapudungun

What is recorded

  • The Mapuche live on both sides of the Andes and their foodways span Argentina and Chile; the international border is a fact about states, not about the people. Piñón gathering from the pehuén araucaria is central to Pehuenche foodways and the tree is legally protected. Land, water and forest rights are actively contested and form part of this foodway. documented

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