Abstract

The present article is an account of the ethnographic and ethnoarchaeologic work developed in the context of Fodecyt project 1040326; the question that orients this set of reflections postulates that the productive and symbolic uses of the natural resources are regulated by seasonal criteria in the forest, lake, river and ocean environments. It also states that, in these practices, we can distinguish patterns of productive and symbolic use that are indigenous, foreign and hybrid, present in the material culture and the oral tradition of the Mapuche communities in the Valdivia River Basin. ©2011Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades.