Transformaciones agronómicas en el valle de Azapa. Una etnografía pionera de Tristan platt (1975)

Abstract

The review of Tristan Platt’s article, “Experiencia y experimentación: los asentamientos andinos en las cabeceras del Valle de Azapa” (Platt, 1975), serves to analyze 1) the socio-political and institutional context of the text’s production; 2) the bond between the author’s contributions on peasant practices in the Azapa’s Valley (Region XV, Chile) and various ethnohistorical models; 3) the applied imprint of ethnographic research, closely linked with that developed at the Universidad del Norte Arica (now the University of Tarapacá); And 4) the testing relationship between the ethnographic, ethnohistorical and archaeological data related to the Azapa’s Valley agriculture. The aim is to contribute to the knowledge of the links between agronomic studies, social anthropology and ethnohistory at a time of expansion of the Andean studies of northern Chile wich coincided with the end of the Agrarian Reform (1962-1973).