KAMALA / HOME
The Americas / Wallmapu, southern South America
Mapuche traditions.
Machi, kultrun and relations with the land.
PEOPLE & CONTEXT
A place, a name,
a living history.
Mapuche traditions retain their own names for knowledge, territory and ceremonial roles. The Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino introduces machi and the kultrun within Mapuche cosmology, alongside historical change and the relationship with mapu, the land.
A WAY TO STUDY
Begin with the source.
Name the source, community and context of an account or object. Read explanations of its signs through that context and keep the role of the machi distinct from a general category of ritual specialist.