FISHERMEN IN THE CENTRAL COAST DURING COLONIAL CENTURIES (XVII-XVIII CENTURIES), MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN MOVEMENT

Authors

  • Fernando Venegas Espinoza Académico Universidad de Concepción

Abstract

In this article, from a microhistorical study focused in Concón, it is reported the way how fishermen during the colonial period developed identity and memory, from the work and the relations they established with their environmental surrounding. This, added to the economic valuation of its work by the authorities and how the defense raised from considerations established by the natural right, led that despite the opposition of landlords and that the Real Audiencia developed numerous real launching provisions of the coastal edge; fishermen were not removed from the coast. In turn, based on the theory of uncertainty, it is critically reflected respect to the association of the social movements with modernization processes.

Keywords:

pescadores, modernización, incertidumbre, memoria, identidad

Author Biography

Fernando Venegas Espinoza, Académico Universidad de Concepción

Doctor en Historia. Académico Universidad de Concepción