Chiloé in another place. Memories of migrations to Punta Arenas

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the construction of knowledge about Chiloe migrations to Magallanes, showing the results of a study that focused on the reconstruction of the social memory of Chilote immigrants in the city of Punta Arenas. The research work based on the theoretical contributions made from the field of anthropology of memory and uses the biographical account of migrants from Chiloé as a testimonial resource that allows vindicating those anonymous and subterranean memories. Likewise, the article exposes how the social memory of the migrants of Chiloé is reproduced and expressed in another place through different material and immaterial elements that act as empirical referents of the memory and culture of a people.