Identidades y propiedades: Transiciones territoriales en el siglo XIX Atacameño

Abstract

The demarcation and fragmentation of Atacameño lands during the last decade feeds on property repertoires that interweave and differentiate each other since before the colonial era. A serie of unpublished documents accounts for distinct -yet not antagonistic-territorial practices and values, both under the government of Bolivia and during the post-War of the Pacific. Its analysis keys into an ethnographic understanding of the socio-territorial complex of national and ethnic differentiation processes in place today in the Atacama Desert (Antofagasta Region).