The article presents the case of a “estancia”, that is an Andean traditional settlement frame at highland of northern Chile, whose inhabitants develop the camelid pastoralism activity as a means of family subsistence, to address the field... more
The article presents the case of a “estancia”, that is an Andean traditional settlement frame at highland of northern Chile, whose inhabitants develop the camelid pastoralism activity as a means of family subsistence, to address the field of reproduction of this system. On this basis, founded on ethnographic data, we characterize the aspects of the organizational changes experienced by these herders in a historical context that impute elements of destructuring their traditional socio-environmental management.
