Abstract EN:

The thesis proposes several approaches to the unpublished writings of the Mapuche leader Manuel Aburto Panguilef and through him to the more general questions about the historical singularity of the ethnological subject and the political relevance of the delirious subject. After defining Aburto's historical context (the first half of the XX century), we explore the question of writing (in an alphabetical sense as well as a more general sense) within Mapuche society. We try to refute the idea of an essentially oral nature of the Indian culture. We also study the scriptural dimension of the political interaction between segmental logics and state logics. Finally we analyze the text itself with a focus on the following elements: the treatment of the genealogical dimension, the political use of the concept of race as a question of sovereignty, and the millenarist and Utopian structure of his prophetic message.