Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; 1 Introduction; Introduction; Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnography of the Che; Resilience ; Organization of the Book; References; 2 Resilience Theory and Inevitable Change: Che Agency, Identity, and Strategic Reorganization; The Concept of Identity; Defining Identity; Identity and Ethnicity; Agency and Structure; Resilience ; Overview; Specifics of ; The Adaptive Cycle; Panarchy; Summary; References; 3 The Che of South-Central Chile; The Che; Social Organization and ; Political Organization; Economic Organization; Religion; Summary

Che Adaptive Cycle: Conservation Phase&hx2013Diego de Almagro, AD 1536; Che Adaptive Cycle: Conservation Phase
Pedro de Valdivia, AD 1540&hx2013; 1553; Che Adaptive Cycle: Release Phase
First Major Offensive AD 1553&hx2013; 1557; Che Adaptive Cycle: Reorganization/Rebound and Conservation
Spanish Resettlement South of the Bio Bio, AD 1558&hx2013; 1587; Che Adaptive Cycle: Release Phase
Second Major Offensive, AD 1598&hx2013; 1602; Che Adaptive Cycle: Reorganization/Rebound, Growth, and Conservation Phases
Frontier Establishment, AD 1602&hx2013; 1700; References

7 Social Shifts and New Regimes: Che Resilience AD 1700&hx2013Present; The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Resilience Cycle: Conservation Phase Continued
Tensions and the End of Spain in Chile, AD 1700&hx2013; 1820; Che Adaptive Cycle: Reorganization/Rebound Phase&hx2013; Chilean Independence and Early Republic, AD 1820; Che Adaptive Cycle: Conservation Phase&hx2013; Chilean Civil War and ``War of Extermination''; Che Adaptive Cycle: Conservation Phase Continued
Increasing Tensions, AD 1850; Che Resilience Cycle: Release and Reorganization/Exit Phases&hx2013