Carnaval Andino en la ciudad de Arica: Performance en la frontera Norte Chilena

Abstract

Research in north Chile has revealed the capacity of Andean social networks for adaptation and reconstruction in contexts of urban complexity. In this context, based on an ethnography of Andean Carnival performances of the "Inti Ch'amampi, Con la Fuerza del Sol" in Arica, we saw how these expressive practices re-elaborated ethnic sensibility related to the event, constituting a novel strategy for communication or self-representation that situated the different ethnic groups with respect to national speakers in a given social space and symbolic border crossing.