El problema indígena chileno en 1999

Authors

  • José Garrido Rojas Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

Since 1992 the emergence of a series of demands by ethnic groups on the continent has been appreciated. In the case of Chile, these range from the recovery of lands that would have been usurped from them, to the questioning of the country before international courts and, in some cases, claims of autonomy and / or self-government. The ethnic issue, as in other places, has appeared together with environmental demands, defense of the native forest and biodiversity. We argue that the globalization of the issue is due to the emergence of an "indigenous ethno-nationalism" that interacts with environmentalism. Assuming a wide difference in the interpretation of the past by anthropologists and historians, in this paper a review of not always known aspects of this problem is made.

Keywords:

Chile, Indigenous Problem, Ethnic Groups, Smallholding, Indigenous Archive

Author Biography

José Garrido Rojas, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

Ingeniero agrónomo; profesor titular de la Universidad de Chile; profesor de desarrollo agrícola en la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales de la Universidad de Chile, donde fue decano entre 1975 y 1986; profesor e investigador del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile; autor de "Historia de la Reforma Agraria en Chile".