The Many Ways of Being Human

8.14

Mapuche and Guaraní

A machi beats her painted drum at a carved rewe in southern Chile, less than a hundred yards from a fence behind which Monterey pines and eucalyptus stand in rows. Two thousand kilometers northeast, in Asunción, Guaraní is everywhere, while the people who carry its name are few. Both are answers to what a people without a state does when a state arrives.