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Chilean and Mapuche Foodways — the boundary

Comparison

⚠ A BOUNDARY ROW. mapuche-foodways is a ROOT in this corpus and spans Chile and Argentina — the people long predate both states. Recorded here is CONTACT and the very large Mapuche contribution to what is now eaten as Chilean food: MERKÉN, piñones, the potato varieties, murta and maqui, curanto and catuto. ⚠ The history also includes the Occupation of the Araucanía of 1861-1883, which took Mapuche land by military force, and continuing land and water conflict — which is part of the food record, because it is about who farms what.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Mapuche community documented

Languages: Mapudungun

What is recorded

  • Mapuche foodways are a root system spanning Chile and Argentina and predating both states. Merkén, piñones, several potato varieties, murta, maqui and curanto are documented Mapuche contributions to what is now eaten as Chilean food. The Occupation of the Araucanía of 1861-1883 and continuing land and water conflict are recorded as part of that history. documented
  • The Occupation of the Araucanía: Mapuche land taken by military force. documented

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