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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sentient Lands -- Part I. People and Land -- 1. Historical Debts: Race, Land, and Nation Building in Southern Chile -- 2. Being from the Land: Place, Memory, and Experience -- 3. Working the Land: Environmental Anxieties, Care, and the Quest for Endurance -- 4. Owning the Land: Entitlement, Assimilation, and Other Dilemmas of Property -- Part II. Land Claims -- 5. Mapping Ancestral Land: The Power of Documents in Land Claims -- 6. Negotiating Ancestral Land: Claimants, Bureaucrats, and the Realpolitik of Sacredness -- 7. The Future of Ancestral Land: Uncertainties of World Making in a Reclaimed Territory -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Based on ethnographic research among small landholders and state officials, this article show that the institutional production and transference of official knowledge engender practices of monitoring and control through which local environmental knowledge and state actors' actions are marginalized and the implementation of legal models of natural resource use is made effective. The implementation of a knowledge model based on audit mechanisms constitute a governmental solution to the restructuring of statecraft under neoliberalism, which aims at favoring the inclusion of small landholders within the global marked in accordance with the principle of individual accountability and the consequent financial and ideological contraction of collective social policies. ; Basado en la observación etnográfica de la relación entre pequeños agricultores y funcionarios estatales, este artículo nos muestra cómo las acciones institucionales de transferencia de conocimiento oficial generan prácticas de monitoreo y control mediante las cuales tanto el conocimiento ambiental local como las acciones de los actores estatales se ven marginalizados a favor de la implementación de modelos legales para el uso de recursos naturales. La aplicación de un modelo de conocimiento oficial, basado en los mecanismos de auditoría, constituye una solución gubernamental a la reestructuración de la intervención estatal bajo el neoliberalismo, el que apunta a favorecer la inclusión de los pequeños agricultores en el mercado global, conforme al principio de responsabilidad individual y la consecuente reducción financiera e ideológica de políticas sociales colectivas.

Sacred sites lie at the core of indigenous peoples' land claims and negotiations with the state. These sites are often subject to accusations of inauthenticity by state actors, which potentially lead to the delegitimization of claims over ancestral land. This article argues that misunderstandings inMapuche land negotiations inChile do not originate as strategic refusals to understand, but rather in a form of understanding which aims to make radical differences commensurable within the logics of statecraft and national society. In the process of cultural translation, the ontological principles that make certain places sacred in theMapuche lived world are not recognized, resulting in the transformation of these sites into symbols of identity strategically employed for political ends.

Once conceptualized as self-evident connections between discrete
social units systematized through ethnographic fieldwork, relations
are being increasingly treated as instantiations of local ontological
theories. The ethnography of indigenous South America has provided a
source of inspiration for this analytical shift. As manifested in the contributions
to this special issue, at the core of indigenous practices and discourses
on relations lies a tension between 'dependence on otherness'
and an 'ethics of autonomy'. In this introduction, we revisit this tension
by focusing on the 'taming of relations', a process through which subjects
attempt to maintain the autonomy of each being vis-à-vis their
relational constitution dependent on others. We argue that rather than
being a necessary condition, autonomy is always a partial outcome of
relations linking human and non-human others.

A partir de una investigación etnográfica multisituada, realizada en contextos urbanos, indígenas y rurales en Chile, en este artículo exploramos los procesos de subjetivación que emergen en poblaciones heterogéneas involucradas en las políticas de fomento al microemprendimiento. Observando la importancia que tienen las nociones de flexibilidad e incertidumbre en la formación emprendedora desarrolladaporestosprogramas,argumentamos que micro emprendedores y funcionarios públicos protagonizan una apropiación activa y crítica de los principios económicos que definen al emprendimiento, con el fin de internalizar la incertidumbre y precariedad como elemento constitutivo de la vida contemporánea. Los valores de la formación emprendedora no se materializarían así en la formación de un sujeto emprendedor individualizado y desligado de su contexto social, sino serían internalizados a partir de prácticas e ideas relacionales significativas en contextos específicos.

In this review, we report the main discussions and concepts debated in the workshop "Animals and Politics: Explorations for a More-Than-Human Democracy," the first academic event on animal studies in Chile. After a brief overview of the workshop, we summ