Embracing the Anaconda - A Chronicle of Atacameno Life and Mining in the Andes

Embracing the Anaconda examines the socio-environmental impacts of contemporary mining companies like Anaconda Copper on the Atacameños, an indigenous community in northern Chile, and how the relationship has evolved through the battle for local water resources that jeopardizes the environment and livelihoods of the Atacameños.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Likantatay: Portable Landscape of an Urban Indigenous Community
Chapter Two: The Social Life of Water: The Stories of Turi and Toconce
Chapter Three: The Cosmopolitics of a Sacred Mountain
Chapter Four: Cupo, An Out-of-the-World Village of Atacama
Chapter Five: El Ingeniero Gringo (the American Engineer)
Chapter Six: Remembering the Pipelines of Chuquicamata Mine
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Anita Carrasco is associate professor of anthropology at Luther College.

Summary

Embracing the Anaconda examines the socio-environmental impacts of contemporary mining companies like Anaconda Copper on the Atacameños, an indigenous community in northern Chile, and how the relationship has evolved through the battle for local water resources that jeopardizes the environment and livelihoods of the Atacameños.

Product details

• Authors: Anita Carrasco
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781498575157
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7515-7
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Chile, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology