Interetnicidad y relaciones sociales en el espacio atacameño

This paper deals with the issue of ethnic identity and alterity relationships’ configurationin contemporary social space in the Atacama Region, Chile. After an historical review ofthe relationships between the most important groups in this space, collective identities andalterity outlines are described and analyzed, to determinate the incidence of this process inthe constitution of the spaces of social interaction, specially economical and social ones, wherethe members of this groups are involved. In those spaces, relationships underlying the socialinequalities, stereotypes and prejudges, coexistence and rivality, besides opposition and interandintraethnic can be established.