…Darwin a bordo del Beagle. Dio la vuelta al mundo pasando por América del Sur. La pampa argentina, los canales patagónicos, el sur de Chile, la cordillera de Los Andes…
Settlement Pattern
The Huasco Diaguitas live in individually held parcels of land grouped together into sectors in the valley, in some cases forming small villages. The hamlets higher up in…
Yámana
Listen Song Chiehaus Úrsula Calderón. Ukika, Punta Arenas. 1994. Grabación: José Pérez de Arce. Archivo MCHAP. Listen Cuento del Pájaro Úrsula Calderón. Ukika, Punta Arenas. 1994. Grabación:…
Environment and Location
…on both sides of the Andes Mountains, and in the west they occupied the lands up the Nahuelbuta Range. The landscape here is dominated by temperate rainforest, which covers the…
Encordando un guitarrón
…Santos Rubio y Chosto Ulloa encuerdan el nuevo guitarrón de don Chosto. El Principal de Pirque, 2007. Este video forma parte de los fragmentos de archivos del proyecto Archivo…
Reunión cantores escuchando Concursos de Canto 1965
…diversas ciudades entre 1965 y 1976. En dos oportunidades nos juntamos en el Archivo de Literatura Oral de la Biblioteca Nacional con Micaela Navarrete y los poetas Santos Rubio, Manuel…
History
…occurred in 1553. In 1557-1558 they were observed and described members of the expedition commanded by Juan Ladrillero and Francisco Cortés Ojeda. Their population was estimated at around 1700, more…
Organización Social
…the third and fourth generation. This organization configured community life and regulated the selection of spouses, who could not be blood relatives. Exceptions were made in special cases; for instance,…
Corn on the stalk. Stories of Pirque.
…Chosto Ulloa and Santos Rubio, poetic singers, guitarrón players, storytellers and profound philosophers, kept the guitarrón tradition alive in Pirque, Central Chile, in the late 20th century. Raised in…
La caña con choclo. Historias pircanas
…Chosto Ulloa y Santos Rubio, cantores a lo poeta, guitarroneros, contadores de historias y profundos filósofos, mantuvieron y difundieron el toque del guitarrón en Pirque, Chile central, a finales…
Environment and Location
The El Vergel people inhabited the central valleys and coastal zone of southern Chile between the Bío Bío and Toltén rivers, in what is now called the Araucania…
La pampa del Toco
…desde hace cinco mil años hasta la actualidad: pastores, agricultores, conquistadores españoles y salitreros. Hoy de ella se extrae litio. Claudio Mercado y Gerardo Silva / 45 minutos / 2007…
Horticulturalists of the central zone
…and economic differences, and that is why contemporary Bato and Llolleo settlements have been found on the El Mercurio newspaper grounds and around the Quinta Normal, both located in the…
Pre-hispanic music of Chile
…a great deal. Music has always been an important part of ceremonial life (without music, rituals would virtually not exist), and the most interesting evidence of this comes to us…
History
…come from further north—that had mixed with the local indigenous population of these trans-Andean valleys. (It is important to note that the Colla people of Chile have no historic relation…
Wünül: Concierto de pajaros
…interpretada por Üñumche: Hombre Pájaro, quien en un sueño recibió el don de comunicarse con las aves. Canto y poesía. Javiera Gallardo y Boris Muñoz / 33 minutos / 2008…
El zorro y el cóndor. Un cuento de los Andes
…común a la narrativa tradicional de los andes sur, da cuenta del origen de las plantas en el mundo andino. Claudio Mercado, Patricia Rodríguez / 11 minutos / 2002…
The pictographs of Confluencia
…Typical of the Confluencia style are scenes that combine human and animal figures, usually camelids, in a single composition. These were painted in red and reddish-yellow, usually inside…
Expedition of the Seven Explorers
…the turtle saw them, saw the seven coming this way, she followed them, walking through the sea. Ira and Raparenga reached Ovahe, they all arrived there and saw the sand—there…
We tripantu en Cerro Navia
…Video que da cuenta de la celebración del Año Nuevo Mapuche en Cerro Navia, comuna de Santiago, durante junio de 1997. En dicha celebración se cruzan una memoria milenaria…
Agriculturalists of the Center
…also required communal activities such as irrigation works and greater control over the territory. Over time, these changes led to the emergence of a new cultural tradition, the Aconcagua, though…
Art
…para collares con minerales de cobre y conchas marinas. Conocían la metalurgia del cobre y el oro, con la que fabricaron finos objetos de prestigio, y también grabaron algunos vasos…
Pipes of Central Chile
…Ritual pipe smoking was a common practice among early agricultural groups in the region, but the custom seems to have disappeared around 400 C.E. in Chile’s far north…