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Journal Article
Why Mapuche sing
2009
Overview
This article attempts to draw out some of the connections between the attraction of personal songs (ül) and ideas about personhood among rural Mapuche people in southern Chile. Approaching these songs from both sociological and semiotic perspectives, I argue that they are constituted as imprints of the singular subjectivities of their initial composers. A focus on three specific features of ül -- their use of first-person pronouns, their entextualization, and their musicality -- reveals how they allow the subjectivities encapsulated within them to become 'inhabited' by others. I conclude by suggesting that this process of inhabiting distinct subjectivities through song resonates with and responds to a problem of epistemological solipsism grounded in Mapuche ideas about the singularity of human nature. /// Le présent article cherche à retracer quelques-uns des liens entre l'attrait des chants personnels (ül) et les idées sur la personnalité chez les Mapuches ruraux du Sud du Chili. À travers une approche à la fois sociologique et sémiotique de ces chants, l'auteur avance qu'ils sont perçus comme des empreintes de la subjectivité singulière de leur compositeur initial. L'accent mis sur les trois caractéristiques spécifiques des ül (utilisation de pronoms à la première personne, entextualisation et musicalité) révèle la façon dont ils permettent aux subjectivités qu'ils renferment d'être \"habitées\" par d'autres. L'auteur suggère, en conclusion, que ce processus d'investissement de subjectivités distinctes par le chant entre en résonance et en correspondance avec un problème de solipsisme épistémologique, ancré dans les idées de singularité de la nature humaine des Mapuches.
