Memories resistance: festivities and Andean ritualidades in Santiago de Chile

The main objective of this article is to characterize the main interpretative repertoires (ethnic claims, festive and ritual practices) that make up a sense of community among the organizations self-defined as in Santiago, Chile Andes, relieving the festival as a place of memory and the urban as possible place of ethnification, through theoretical problematization of the following areas: memory, identity and festivity, and from the study of four festivals: Inti Raymi, Wiñay Pacha, Anata and Chakana. To do various ethnographies, in-depth interviews Aymara leaders, Andean musicians and dancers performed.