My name is Antonia Prado, and i'm 19 years old. I'm from Quilpué, Valparaíso, but know i'm living in Santiago. I study Anthropology and I like it a lot. I love dancing, take pictures, go to the cinema, walking around and hangout with my friends

Sonia Montecinos
Sonia is an social anthropologist of Universidad de Chile, who has worked in topics like gender and ethnicity .I dicovered her last year, in the class of Philosophy at my school. We read an essay from her called "Madres y Huachos". The importance about her work is that, first, that he uses a couple of disciplines, like anthropology, literature to

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Latin Rhythm and the essence of a colonize territory

 The history of our continent has been written and lived by a lot of different people and cultures. A little part of Africa, Europe and of course all of America, have been lived together since 1492, sharing language, traditions and perceptions of life. The syncretism is a very important thing at the moment of talking about what Latin America is. And one of the many examples and marks that this process have leaved is dance.

All of the native people had cultural expressions that was affected at the moment of the arrive of Europe people, who came with a whole of new categories and rules that were imposed to local population in an extremely violent way. Almost every resident were put down in the new order, and a very important number of African slaves were brought to America to work for the prosperity of Europe kingdoms.

But not all of this story is about death and culture strip. The forced coexist of the different dominated  and dominating cultures implied the mix of many cultural characteristics, who give born to several new traditions. African cultures had a diverse type of dances, most of them were related to religion belief, what which influenced the local ones