TY - BOOK ID - 129534378 TI - Embracing the anaconda : a chronicle of Atacameño life and mining in the Andes PY - 2020 SN - 1498575153 1498575161 PB - Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, DB - UniCat KW - Atacameño Indians. KW - Atacama Desert (Chile) KW - Atacama, Désert d' (Chili) KW - Chile. KW - Chile UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129534378 AB - Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Anita Carrasco examines the socio-environmental impacts of contemporary mining on the Atacamenos, an indigenous community in northern Chile, and their home in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest regions in the world. Carrasco describes the impacts of short-term mining corporations like Anaconda Copper that arrived, destroyed, and departed, while explicating the positive and negative memories of those left behind. ER -