¿Integración social y subordinación política de los aymara?: Un estudio de la certificación estatal indígena en el norte chileno

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is the process of integration/inclusion of the Aymara people into political and national community. The starting point was to know the answer or response of Aymara community (Arica-Parinacota) to the affirmation politic raised from the state. Here we analyzed data related to the process called indigenous condition accreditation, impulse by the national corporation for the indigenous development (CONADI). This raised several questions about the experience of being and indigenous citizen today addressed in this article. A complementary methodology was to interview people who applied for the certification, with the intention to now their argument and study the meanings elaborated by the actors. The data analyses show that the state insist in paternalistic politics, meanwhile the Aymara community keep looking for new ways to by a part of the hegemonic society.