Launch // Afro-Indigenous History in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia.

Tuesday 05/16 → 18 hours. → Digital TV / Live broadcast on the UAH YouTube channel.

«Afro-Indigenous History in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. Theoretical Reflections and Proposals. Afro-Coquimbo Project: History After Oblivion.» 

This book investigates a minimally referenced and researched factor in Chilean historiography: the marronage of Africans. The Afro-descendant presence in Chile is difficult to trace, especially after the second half of the 19th century. This research reveals how culturally and genetically diverse our country is.

The Afro-Coquimbo Project: The History Born from Oblivion began in 2018 as an independent and self-managed research project. Afro-Coquimbo: The History After Oblivion was a name that called for the recovery of something lost, something relegated. Back then, based on a few pioneering studies that had already been published in the region, we began to consider how to continue both the investigations and the reflections surrounding a vast and essential topic: the presence, agency, and memory of Afro-descendant and Afro-mestizo people in the historic Chilean region of Coquimbo.

Authors

Montserrat Arre Marfull, Maribel Arrelucea Barrantes, Cristian Báez Lazcano, Carlos Cisternas Oyanedel, Nicole Chávez González, Rafael González Romero, Luis Madrid Moraga, Paola Revilla Orías, Andrea Sanzana Sáez.

Panelists:

Daniel Domingo Gomez. Musicologist, PhD student at USACH.

Isabel Araya Morales. Anthropologist, PhD student at UTA.

Moderate:

Daniel Palma. Historian and academic UAH.

→ Learn about the book here