Memories resistance: festivities and Andean ritualidades in Santiago de Chile

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to characterize the main interpretative repertoires (ethnic claims, festive and ritual practices) that make up a sense of community among the organizations self-defined as in Santiago, Chile Andes, relieving the festival as a place of memory and the urban as possible place of ethnification, through theoretical problematization of the following areas: memory, identity and festivity, and from the study of four festivals: Inti Raymi, Wiñay Pacha, Anata and Chakana. To do various ethnographies, in-depth interviews Aymara leaders, Andean musicians and dancers performed.