Abstract

TRENTINI, Florencia et al. "Los nostálgicos del desierto": la cuestión mapuche en Argentina y el estigma en los medios. Cultura representaciones soc [online]. 2010, vol.4, n.8, pp.186-212. ISSN 2007-8110.

During the last few months, several Argentine media outlets have published a series of articles, which common denominator was to discredit the pre-existence of an indigenous population called "mapuche". These discourses appear in a context of increasing territorial conflicts. The purpose of this article is to analyse the main arguments provided by these journalistic articles and point out its fallacies in anthropological terms, taking into consideration that these readings resort to essentialist and biologistic explanations of the identities.

Keywords : Mapuche indigenous population; stigma; media; territorial conflicts.