![]() | Courage Tastes of Blood Mallon recounts the land usurpation Nicolás Ailío endured in the first decades of the twentieth century and the community's ongoing struggle for restitution. Facing extreme poverty and inspired by the agrarian mobilizations of the 1960s, some community members participated in the agrarian reform under the government of socialist president Salvador Allende. With the military coup of 1973, they suffered repression and desperate impoverishment. Out of this turbulent period the Mapuche revitalization movement was born. What began as an effort to protest the privatization of community lands under the military dictatorship evolved into a broad movement for cultural and political recognition that continues to the present day. By providing the historical and local context for the emergence of the Mapuche revitalization movement, Courage Tastes of Blood offers a distinctive perspective on the evolution of Chilean democracy and its rupture with the military coup of 1973. Florencia E. Mallon is Professor of Modern Latin American History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru and The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940 . She is the editor and translator of When a Flower is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist , by Rose Isolde Reuque Paillalef, also published by Duke University Press. |
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