Living on the edge (still) / Claudia Briones and José Luis Lanata -- Official policies in the seizure and control of Indian territories of northern Patagonia / Raúl Díaz and Carlos Falaschi -- Araucanization and nation, or how to inscribe foreign Indians upon the Pampas during the last century / Axel Lazzari and Diana Lenton -- Mortuary rituals among the southern Tehuelche / Celia N. Priegue -- Religion and kinship in the Mapuche culture / Graciela Beatriz Hernández -- Myth and history: the expression of contact in the Elal cycle / Alejandra Siffredi -- Economic relations, cooperation, and reciprocity in Mapuche communities / Sabine Kradolfer -- Pulmarí: protected indigenous territory / Coordinación de Organizaciones Mapuche -- "We are neither an ethnic group nor a minority, but a pueblo-nación originario." The cultural politics of organizations with Mapuche philosophy and leadership / Claudia Briones -- Interethnic relations in Native-American populations of Argentine Patagonia: a genetic demographic analysis / Francisco R. Carnese, Alicia L. Caratini, and Alicia S. Goicoechea -- Aspects of ergativity in Tehuelche / Ana Fernández Garay -- From secrecy to public performance: the political uses of Mapudungun / Lucía A. Golluscio.