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Los chilotes en la ballenera de Quintay

2012; Issue: 24 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5354/rca.v0i24.18164

0719-1472

Paula De la Fuente, Daniel Quiróz,

Offshore Engineering and Technologies

Chiloe was an active whaling center since the late eighteenth century, when foreign sailors began whaling in the Golfo del Corcovado. Later, in the twentieth century, the wealth of this area was exploited by whaling companies who set their land stations in its islands. The early presence of foreign whalers in Chiloe, and the local companies, led to the emergence of a “quellonina” whaling tradition. During the decades of 40 and 60, a group of chilotes from Quellon emigrated to Quintay (1943-1967) and El Molle (1956-19675) whaling stations, both of INDUS SA, travel related to the presence of a “quellonina” whaling tradition. In this paper we explore, from ethnography and history, the characteristics of this movement and its participants. The Chilotes were, in the north, a group of people visible, distinguishable, against which no one was indifferent.