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CHRONICLE OF CHILENIZATION. ANDEAN RELIGIOUSNESS IN THE ACCOUNTS OF FATHER JULIO RAMÍREZ ORTIZ. SIERRA DE ARICA, 1922-1931

CRÓNICA DE LA CHILENIZACIÓN. LA RELIGIOSIDAD ANDINA A TRAVÉS DEL RELATO DEL PADRE JULIO RAMÍREZ ORTIZ. SIERRA DE ARICA, 1922-1931

Alberto Díaz Araya and Felipe Casanova Rojas

This article analyzes two texts written by the Chilean military priest Julio Ramírez Ortiz (Por la Pampa Adusta y Tierras Gri- ses) in which he discusses different social aspects of the Andean communities of Sierra de Arica during the first years of the 20th century. These materials, elaborated on the occasion of the complex diplomatic scenario known as Chilenization, present a complex sociopolitical and ethnocentric perspective on the indigenous peoples. However, it is also possible to find interesting ethnographic descriptions of the organization, practices, and beliefs of the communities. This ambiguity would be mediated by the chronicler’s thinking of colonial origin, which seeks to account for the incidence of cultural assimilation policies imple- mented in the region by the Chilean State.

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LAS CAJAS DE SANTOS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CIRCUITS OF THE MEMORY (ESTACIÓN SAN PEDRO)

LAS CAJAS DE SANTOS Y SU RELACIÓN CON LOS CIRCUITOS DE LA MEMORIA (ESTACIÓN SAN PEDRO)

María Carolina Odone Correa

This work refers to the San Antonio de Padua wooden boxes existing in San Pedro Estación or San Pedro Station (Cuenca San Pedro-Inacaliri, II region, Antofagasta, Chile). The article is inserted in the current discussion about the social life of objects, being ethnography, visuality and ethnohistory the access doors to account for these portable drawers and their links with ancient and current circuits of people, memories and stories diverse and shared. The portable drawer is explored in both Eu- ropean manufacturing and its insertion in the Southern Andes, acquiring its own characteristics in both Bolivia and Peru. It is recognized how the boxes of saints arrived at San Pedro Estación, giving an account of their links and significant relationship with the circuits of memory, their travels, the past, the present and the cosmological.

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MOBILITY, KINSHIP AND IDENTIFICATION IN THE CODPA VALLEY, NORTHERN CHILE

MOVILIDAD, PARENTESCO E IDENTIFICACIÓN EN EL VALLE DE CODPA, NORTE DE CHILE

Cristhian Cerna y Wilson Muñoz

This article analyzes the relationship between population mobility, rural-urban migration, kinship practices and collective identification in the Codpa Valley, located in the Arica Precordillera in northern Chile. The research methodology combined the extended case method and multi-sited ethnography. Between 2012 and 2017, we carried out ethnography in urban and rural spaces through which members connect the city of Arica with the locality. Based on the results of the research, we show that, in a context of high rural-urban migration that characterizes the indigenous territories diagnosed as depopulated, kinship practices have played a central role in the configuration of a translocal identification of the population, revealing a specific sociocultural logic associated with the locality and its construction of alterities in the (trans)national border area.

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WOMEN’S ANDEAN SOCCER: A TRANSLOCAL SPORT SPRACTICE

FÚTBOL FEMENINO ANDINO: UNA PRÁCTICA DEPORTIVA TRANSLOCAL

Andrea Álvarez Díaz and José Miguel Villegas Robertson

This article aims to contribute, from the perspective of social studies on sports and culture, some insights about Andean women’s soccer in the Chilean north. Elements of the discussion about sports and gender are presented to understand, in an intercultural context, the soccer practice of Aymara women from an intersectional perspective. Through a multi-situated ethnography, translocal migratory dynamics are addressed, and the historical development of Andean women’s soccer in the Region of Tarapacá is described. Different translocal territorial sports spaces are described. We close the text by presenting the cultural and sporting trajectory of an Aymara player, highlighting the multi-sited and translocal nature of soccer practice.

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FAMILY FARMERS, AND AFTERWARDS? THE IMPACT OF THE INCLUSION OF INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE STRUCTURE

AGRICULTORES FAMILIARES, ¿Y DESPUÉS? IMPACTO DE LA INCLUSIÓN DE ORGANIZACIONES INDÍGENAS A LA ESTRUCTURA ESTATAL

Marina Weinberg

In this article I examine the establishment in Argentina of the paradigm of what has been described, since mid-2000, as the Family Farming sector. From an ethnographic approach, I consider in particular the structure and functioning of the Family Farming Department, and I examine how this office related to the indigenous organization Qullamarka in the Salta province. I pay attention to the ways in which this organization was reformulated within a political context in which, to some extent, the emergence and development of grassroots organizations was favored, while at the same time there was a structure that limited and shaped its functioning. I observe the ways in which some indigenous communities were incorporated as family agriculturalists to public policies and how this reconfiguration modified their relation with the state, both at the provincial and national levels, as well as the impact that this had inside their own organization.

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