La cordillera de los Andes no es frontera. Cuerpos-territorios y medicina ancestral mapuche en contexto de pandemia

The article analyzes the campaign «La Cordillera No Es Frontera», promoted by the Indigenous Women’s Movement for Good Living due to the situation of the machi (Mapuche health authority) Mawün Jones, from Ngulumapu (current Chilean territory), who crossed the Andes Mountain range to assist patients in Puelmapu (current Argentinian territory), and was stranded due to the isolation measures decreed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This campaign fostered the machi´s return to her territory and also a debate on the political limits imposed by the Argentine and Chilean States on Mapuche territory and the logic of social control over indigenous women. We propose to reflect on the mountain chain as a political border, as well as a geographical, symbolic, and physical border. This implies reviewing the decisions of the States that affect people who experience ethnic and gender inequalities, and who also practice unrecognized forms of medicine.