Abstract

This article analyzes the relationship between populational mobility, rural-urban migration, kinship practices and the collective identification in the Codpa Valley, located in the Arica Precordillera at northern Chile. The research methodology articulated through the conjunction of the extended case method and multi-sited ethnography. Between 2012 and 2016, we carried out ethnography on urban and rural spaces through which members used to connecting the Arica city and the locality as compatible and articulated nodes. Based on the results of the research, we will show that, in a context of high rural-urban migration that characterizes the indigenous territories diagnosed as depopulated, kinship practices have been keys in the configuration of a translocal identification of the population, revealing a specific sociocultural logic associated with the locality and their construction of alterities in the (trans)national border area.