Resumen

GARCES H, Alejandro  y  MORAGA R, Jorge. GROUND TRANSPORTATION AND NEW INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN AYMARA SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMY. Chungará (Arica) [online]. 2016, vol.48, n.3, pp.441-451.  Epub 04-Abr-2016. ISSN 0717-7356.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-73562016005000010.

This article explores the development of a transport market which moves passengers and goods over the road system currently connecting Bolivia and Chile. An elite of aymara transport entrepreneurs has emerged in both Colchane and Pisiga to provide these services. This elite has currently been put under pressure by the appearance of new national and international actors. In a context of rural depopulation, migration between cities in both Chile and Bolivia and deterioration of the farming economy, we will see how participation in this transportation market has implied an important source of economic accrual in which indigenous actors have found a place. This process has reconfigured pre-existing political structures and generated new forms of social mobility and economic and political leadership.

Palabras clave : Colchane; Pisiga; aymara; transportation; economy.

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