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CHIAPPE, Carlos María. Property fragmentation or subsistence strategies? A pioneer research in San Pedro de Atacama (Chile, II Región, 1961). Idesia [online]. 2019, vol.37, n.1, pp.9-18. ISSN 0718-3429.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-34292019005000201.

The purpose of this article is to analyze a report submitted to the Corporación de Fomento de Chile in 1961. This is entitled Elementos diagnósticos para un plan de desarrollo local en San Pedro de Atacama and has as its authors three members of the Instituto de Geografía de la Universidad de Chile. The contextual and textual analysis of it will lead me to highlight its pioneers contributions to knowledge about agriculture and related issues in a specific location and area: the Sub-área Circumpuneña and San Pedro de Atacama. It is argued that studies of historical tone such as the present are indispensable to recognize that the current advances on geographic-social issues of the Norte Grande de Chile are inserted in a certain genealogy, which must be taken into account to identify both the achievements and the past and present limitations, given the perfectibility of scientific knowledge.

Palabras clave : andean studies; geographical-social studies; sub-área circumpuneña; development policies.

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