Abstract

SOLIS OYARZUN, Boris  and  DIAZ CROVETTO, Gonzalo. Testimonies of a catastrophe: Cultural models of response post neyün [earthquake] and tripanlafken [tsunami]of 1960 among the inhabitants of rural localities of the commune of Saavedra (region of La Araucanía, Chile. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2019, n.56, pp.61-86. ISSN 1668-8104.

The large number of socionatural disasters has become a relevant field of interest for social sciences, where studies of social vulnerability, population displacement, mitigation and risks stand out. The objective of this article was to address the various moments unleashed after the catastrophe of 1960, based on an ethnographic immersion process that gathered testimonies from four Lafkenche communities in the locality of Saavedra. The collected testimonies showed similarities with Hoffman’s (1999) cultural model of response to catastrophes, the is the reason why we focus in problematizing and characterizing the stages narrated post-catastrophes in this text, as well as the importance acquired by the relationship established between myth and rite for the Lafkenche of the Saavedra coast in their response of the tsunami (tripanlafken) and the earthquake (neyün).

Keywords : Socionatural disasterm; Lafkenche; Neyün; Territory; Tripanlafken.

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