Abstract

The recent history of the Araucania Territory, Chile, has been marked by the emergence of new forms and modes of relationship among its inhabitants. While it is a territory historically defined by ethnic confrontation and the imposition of nation state Chilean sovereignty in the Mapuche territory; the tensions and vicissitudes of this contact acquired -during the last period- a new shape, in relation with the new prevailing economic order. From the years 2007 and 2008, it was possible to see that some forestry companies with assets in the territory, initiated processes to reformulate their strategies, particularly in regard to its relationship with the Mapuche communities. This work presents interim results of an anthropological research project, which aims to bring to ethnographic description of new social and economic forms of industrial management oriented to rebuild the styles of relationship with the Mapuche communities