The primacy of masculine gender in almost every domain of culture is an universal phenomenon: men and women participate in differentiated value systems which, according to Marvin Harris, are grounded in the exclusive practice of war by men. The mapuche society in the conquest days was not an exception, and the ideology behind their social practices determined an asymmetry between both genders. centrality of civil legislation for the consolidation of the new order in the continent.The primacy of masculine gender in almost every domain of culture is an universal phenomenon: men and women participate in differentiated value systems which, according to Marvin Harris, are grounded in the exclusive practice of war by men. The mapuche society in the conquest days was not an exception, and the ideology behind their social practices determined an asymmetry between both genders. centrality of civil legislation for the consolidation of the new order in the continent.