Indigenous peoples in (trans)formation. A decolonial look

On the occasion of the publication of "Autochtonies en terrain miné : formation et fragmentation des Diaguita dans le Chili néolibéralisé", a meeting is proposed. Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 12:15pm

To mark the release of her latest book, "Autochtonies en terrain miné", we invite you to meet Anahy Gajardo.
The Diaguita - who had been decreed a totally extinct "ethnic group" at the turn of the 16th century - asked to be recognized as an indigenous people in the early 2000s, when they mobilized against a gigantic mining project. The project threatens their ecological and social environment. Two decades later, they are the third largest indigenous group in this South American country. How can we interpret the process by which the Diaguita have gone from being an archaeological object, visible only in museums, to an indigenous people living and fighting for their rights?
The meeting will be an opportunity to see some Diaguita objects from the MEG collections.
Speaker: Anahy Gajardo, doctor in human and social sciences, lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel (Institute of Ethnology) and the University of Fribourg (Institute of Curative and Specialized Pedagogy).