Rethinking the world from a Mapudigma: The sociocultural construction of reality from the Mapuche Kimün perspective

Abstract

There is an epistemological gap between the theoretical foundations of social science disciplines and the knowledge of native peoples, both in Chile and in Latin America. From a perspective located in wallmapu (Mapuche territory), this problem is manifested in the professional intervention of the different scientific disciplines and specifically of Social Work as the first profession of the social sciences settled in Mapuche territory and which today comprises a large part of the Chilean territory. Faced with this problem, the objective of this paper is to articulate the Mapuche notion of “mapu” and the scientific-disciplinary notion of “society” in order to situate it as a paradigm of the social, which in the words of the authors we call “mapudigma”. From this objective we used the mingako as a mapuche methodological approach from which we articulated the approaches of each author based on the review of some of the main bibliographies of mapuche authors who have been reflecting and shedding light on mapu as an unfinished concept. The conclusions also expose the results that support the possibility of rethinking the contemporary social world and its sociocultural construction from an ancestral philosophy called mapuche kimün as a political proposal and epistemic justice.