https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA <p>Revista Chilena de Antropologia is a peer review international journal published twice a year (July and December). It accepts papers in English and Spanish. The journal's objective is to present and discuss scientific research in all Anthropology in order to undestand the complex reality of the social and cultural world. The journal has a permanent call for articles.</p> es-ES rchant@uchile.cl (Francisco Osorio) ccalabrano@uchile.cl (Dirección de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas (SISIB)) Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:38:47 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76740 In this paper, we introduce a dossier dedicated to the memory of Victoria Castro Rojas (1944-2022), emphasizing her legacy within the context of national and international discussions on the contributions of women to scientific development, particularly in Chilean and Latin American archaeology and anthropology. We highlight Vicky's immense contributions from a biographical perspective, as well as the studies that examine her impact on the promotion of various fields of study, both at the disciplinary and conceptual levels. Patricia Ayala, Mauricio Uribe Copyright (c) 2024 Revista Chilena de Antropología https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76740 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76365 In this paper I offer a reflection on the ethnographic turn in archaeology and its contribution to the link with Indigenous Peoples through the development of public, collaborative and indigenous archaeology. This work does not pretend to be exhaustive, but rather seeks to present the contemporary discussion on this subject, starting from the global and ending in a local case. This reflection emphasizes the contribution of Victoria Castro in the conformation of these lines of work in Chile. Patricia Ayala Rocabado Copyright (c) 2024 Revista Chilena de Antropología https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76365 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76478 Research testimony of the early years of the Toconce Group, a group of university origin formed in the mid-seventies to investigate the pre-Hispanic past of the upper basin of the Salado River, the main tributary of the Loa River. Throughout its history, the group created an academic and research identity focused on archaeology, but broadly multidisciplinary, and carried out its activities in close connection with indigenous communities. Its members contributed to Central-Southern Andean studies with research that challenged the authoritarian and exclusive paradigms of the discipline at the time, practicing an archaeology that was both historical and anthropological. In the life cycle of the group, a stage of Gestation can be recognized that is prior to its founding, a stage of Creation and another of Growth, which corresponds to the eight “early years”, but which probably extended beyond this period. The Consolidation stage would have begun at the end of the 1980s. José Berenguer Copyright (c) 2024 Revista Chilena de Antropología https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76478 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/75297 This paper is an historical investigation about the construction of gender identity durin the 19th century in the Chilean educational context. It was carried out throught the study of a sample corresponding to objects from the Pique Hospitales archaeological site, the Gabriela Mistral Museum of Education and the National Historical Museum. The physical analysis and the historical antecedents of the sample will allow to regulate (to classify, to identify and to distinguish) the objects to know the relevant physical and symbolic aspects at the moment of the classification of each one in gender categories, to understand the object-subject link. In this research was used methodologies and theoretical references from historical archeology and with a gender perspective were used to achieve the aims. It allowed to reflect on the construction of historically established social roles and its implications in the link with materiality. Katherine Gana Copyright (c) 2024 Revista Chilena de Antropología https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/75297 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76513 This text reflects and highlights fundamental contributions of the researcher Victoria Castro Rojas. We refer to the vision of the practice of archaeology that she promoted throughout her career, as a discipline not so much of the past, but anchored in the present and in permanent connection with local communities and the territories where she developed her work. This resulted in a disciplinary practice that resisted the hegemonic process of distancing between archaeology and anthropology, consolidating a line of research that articulated diverse disciplines and opened new and interstitial spaces for research and the training of dozens of professionals. Magdalena García, Manuel Escobar Copyright (c) 2024 Revista Chilena de Antropología https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76513 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76522 The text presents an interview conducted with Victoria Castro Rojas in the context of the first podcast dedicated to anthropology in Chile, A campo traviesa [Cross-country]. After an introduction where two aspects of Castro Rojas' work are highlighted -overcoming the relevant monodisciplinary research scheme and using an ad hoc tone to influence non-academic audiences- the interview is presented. Interweaving personal and professional dimensions, it unfolds in three sections. The first addresses her beginnings in the academic world and the impact of the Dictatorship; the second discusses her research, focused on areas in northern Chile; finally, aspects of teaching, current situation, and her present work and future projects are considered, interrupted by her passing in June 2022. Pablo Rojas-Bahamonde Copyright (c) 2024 Revista Chilena de Antropología https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76522 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76524 The pottery called “Hedionda”, whose name comes from the lagoon of the same name in southwestern Bolivia where it was recognized for the first time, was also identified in the 1970s and 1980s in the Upper Loa River, specifically in Toconce. Thanks to the Victoria Castro and her team pioneer work of, based on the presence of this and other architectural indicators such as the “chullpa”, the subsequent development of the Loa populations has been characterized -from the perspective of the Murra’s Andean verticality- such as a “penetration” or interaction between this Altiplano tradition and the Desert tradition, represented by the Atacama local groups. In this context, the Pucara de Turi would be one of the scenarios where this situation is best reproduced. However, our experience with the ceramic materials from this site led us to think differently about this highland “penetration” in the region. To systematize and confirm our observations, we analyzed the sample recovered in surface collections and excavations from Turi. This made us look for and try other explanations, which began with a typological reevaluation, discussing its behavior in the chullpas and its presence in the western slope of Circumpuna. Mauricio Uribe , Victoria Castro Copyright (c) 2024 Revista Chilena de Antropología https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76524 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76525 It is proposed to describe in intensity the way of life of fishermen and gatherer way of life in the Caleta de Arica. From certain ecologies of practices and of bonding practices and technologies, we address the heterogeneous experiences that weave a distinctive that interweave a distinctive socio-natural environment, composed of multiple existing of multiple existences and their respective relationalities. We incorporate our own classifications and expert knowledge about the maritorio [sea-territory] and the upbringing at sea, either in terms of the in terms of tasks and interactions, as well as in analytical and comparative terms. comparative terms. The political aspects of social memory and the historical dimension of cultural traditions are also explored. and the historical dimension of coastal cultural traditions are also explored, examining past experience in the present experience of the past in the matters of the present and vice versa. Underlying, then, is a reflection on the ability of ethnography to ethnography's ability to relate different worlds in permanent and mutual reconfiguration. different worlds in permanent and mutual reconfiguration. Francisca Urrutia Copyright (c) 2024 Revista Chilena de Antropología https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/76525 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000