There is an usual question in archaeology: how archaeology affect the communities? There is a lot of possible answers, from the ability to know the unwritten past to justice achievement in a forensic case as experts do. But the history of archaeology tells us about a dark past of their practices, the spoils of pieces from indigenous communities, even worse, the removal of ancestors and the exhibition in museum. (Fig. Images published in Ayala in 2007) Nowadays, these practices are under questioning, and the most important factor is the own communities' complaints linked with legal prescription, like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, our neoliberal and capitalism context, entails a lot of investment projects such as mining, energy and property sector, and the contract archaeology or preventive archaeology, wherever the name, most of the time, archaeology turns into a commercial activity without a local cultural awareness. So, if you...
Hi everyone! This fourth post is about food, something that everyone enjoy. So, I'm going to talk about my favorite dish: "chupe". Chupe is a tipical hot dish, a really tasty chilean one. It is quite versatile, because it can be prepared with sea food, I mean with fish or shellfish, or meat like organs, as well as vegetarian food like alga "cochayuyo" . To prepare it, you are going to need: old bread, milk, butter, cream, onion, cheese and whatever you want! I prefer do it with " carapacho ", the crab meat, or with fresh alga "cochayuyo ". You are going to prepare a budin with all the ingredients and put in a clay vessel, and I really love this part: the food with earthenware. Despite the fact that the dish is healthy, unlucky I don't cook it very often because the preparation is time consuming, and here in Santiago the ingredients are unavailable and more expensive than in Concepción, where I used to live. And sincerely, I ...