Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences Research Article Open Access The revitalization of the mapuche language as a space of ideological struggle: the case of pehuenche communities in Chile Abstract Volume 1 Issue 5 - 2017 Based on our findings in a research founded by CONICYT carried out in pehuenche Cristián Lagos, Felipe Pérez de Arce, Verónica communities in Alto Bio, this paper proposes the use of recent perspectives in Linguistic anthropology, languages ideologies model to understand local initiatives of Figueroa Department of Linguistics, Universidad de Chile, Chile linguistic revitalization, such as the Bilingual intercultural education program (BIEP) in schools in the communities, as spaces of “ideological struggle”, that is, social spaces Correspondence: Cristián Lagos, Associate Professor, in which several social actors dealing with indigenous languages and its revitalization Department of Linguistics, Universidad de Chile, Chile, Tel communities and indigenous organizations, CONADI, MINEDUC, universities have 229787068, Email
[email protected] diverse and heterogeneous cultural models about languages in contact (chedungun and Spanish), models that explain the problems that these and other revitalization Received: June 24, 2017 | Published: September 01, 2017 initiatives have to confront. Thus, first we show the situation of indigenous languages in Chile and how it replicates in the case of pehuenches communities studied, we describe initiatives to revert that situation and the BIEP as one of them and