New mobilities, old imaginaries: An ethnographic report from “the end of the world”

• Main Author: Salazar, Noel B.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Victoria, Canada 2010
• Subjects: Chile; imaginaries; migration; mobility; history; anthropology; Inaccessible Island; Pacific; Patagonia
• Online Access: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/265738; http://researcher.royalroads.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=1029

Chile’s geographical remoteness – a long and narrow coastal strip between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Atacama Desert and the icebergs of Patagonia – has largely defined the imaginaries people share about this Latin American country. Despite its historical image as finis terrae (th...