Chilean Rituals: A Textual Analysis

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By chance, recently I watched a video posted in Facebook by a Chilean colleague who is also studying abroad. It is a short video that shows Chile in just 2 minutes, flying from the Northern lands to the Antarctica . Carefully, it stops in the diabladas, huaynos, and danzas chinas (Chinese dances), traditional performances in the borders between Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. Despite its denomination –Chinese dances-, they are not related to China in any way; rather, it is rooted in the mining processes during the colonial times as a way to celebrate Catholic rituals, especially Mary, the Virgin.
The overview also mixes the desert, the Pacific Ocean, and indigenous rock art in the mountains, the Catholics churches in small towns, and the copper

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