%0 Journal Article %T El "pewma" en la poes¨ªa mapuche %A Garc¨ªa Barrera %A Mabel %J Papeles de trabajo - Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Etnoling£¿£¿£¿-stica y Antropolog£¿-a Socio-Cultural %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X "pewma" - dream- in mapuche culture responses to a kind of ancestral communication and social practice which has been integrated in present mapuche artistic expressions as a part of the process of retraditionalization working in them supporting their own cultural identity and different one like a strategy to mask western aesthetics canon upon which these expressions base their discourses. in this sense, the mapuche poetic, in general, introduces a homological process into the communicative interaction of traditional culture rooted in a sacred vision of the cosmos where the "pewma" and ritual prayers such as "yeyipun", "nguillatun" or the "machi ¨¹l" are linking resorts between tangible and intangible, human and supernatural, thus becoming a support and mechanism of a discourse that opens like an ethos extension of traditional culture. %K mapuche art %K poetry %K "pewma" %K retraditionalization. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1852-45082008000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en