Cosmovisión mapuche y manifestaciones funerarias. Un viaje entre lo etéreo y lo material

The Araucania in the Republic of Chile was annexed in the late nineteenth century, through a military occupation by drawing lines of occupation that was instrumental in building strong. Thus this region whose membership was ancestral Mapuche people with all its symbolismwas giving way to thousands of occupants of different nationalities as part of a process of colonization agricultural driven from the State. The cemeteries of Araucanía, reflect precisely thisdiversity of conception travel of the Mapuche people in countless communities we were relegated, while retaining a close relationship between subject and nature, symbolizing union codes varied from a state of preparedness of death, understood as a journey to a higher platform.The cemeteries of Araucanía, from the architectural point of view presents a unique variety, there are there, the obvious contrast between the earthly and the divine in its various forms provided bythe diverse cultures that converged. Ways to realize notions of vanity, rest, shelter, shelter, among other with a single meaning: to give an account of life, rather than that of death. This publicationis a record of major events that capture the mortuary architecture and is manifested in the expression of the Mapuche and non-Mapuche death.