Dados do autor
Sua instituiçãoUniversity of New Mexico
País de origem do autorEstados Unidos
Dados co-autor(es) [Máximo de 2 co-autores]
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Nome completoManuel Prieto
Sua titulaçãoDoctor
TitulaçãoDoctor
País de origem do co-autorChile
InstituiçãoUniversidad de Tarapacá
Nome completoDiego Salazar
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TitulaçãoDoctor's Degree Student
InstituiçãoUniversidad de Chile
País de origem do co-autorChile
Proposta de Paper
Área Temática01. Antropologia
Grupo TemáticoEl manejo del agua en los Andes : pasado, presente y futuro
TítuloWater, minerals, wak’as, lives and landscapes: long-term political ecology in the high-altitude Atacama
Resumo

In the past and present, water, minerals, people, and politics have been entangled in the Atacama region of northern Chile, a hyperarid, mineralogically rich landscape that first became incorporated into a larger political economy with its conquest by the Inka in the early 15th century. We explore this history and these relations through a discussion of water management, farming and herding, mining, society and politics (involving both human and non-human beings) in late prehispanic times in the Upper Loa region of northern Chile, and compare this context to that of modern Indigenous communities in Atacama. Though this comparison, we begin to consider the potential but also the complexities of applying the past to the present and the future.

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Palavras-chave
  • water management
  • applied archaeology
  • Atacama