In this paper we propose a reading from the perspective of cultural conflict to an opposition to a so-called mining project "Pampa Colorada" which intended to draw groundwater in the Andean area of San Pedro de Atacama, and involving the Atacama communities of Socaire, Peine, Toconao y San Pedro, mining companies and the State. This situation is analysed from a conceptual interactionist perspective, where interethnic frictions of cultural conflict are based on different uses and interpretations that give different agents to valued object in the desert as it is the water and how this case transformed the political relations in the Atacama Salar area, beginning the era of judicialization of environmental and cultural conflicts with new actors, practices and discourses. A qualitative methodology is used from an ethnographic approach developed in the affected communities.
Morales, H., & Azócar, R. (2019). Analytical chronicle of an ethno-environmental triumph in Salar Atacama: Pampa Colorada. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (39), 38–57. Retrieved from https://revistadeantropologia.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/53720
