An Inside Sun: Lickanantay Volcanology in the Salar de Atacama

dc.contributor.authorChocobar, Sonia Ramos
dc.contributor.authorTironi, Manuel
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T21:03:39Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T21:03:39Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe need of establishing more substantive dialogs between the mainstream and Indigenous knowledge on volcanoes has been increasingly recognized. To contribute to this endeavor, in this article we present the basic volcanological understandings of the Lickanantay people in the Salar de Atacama Basin. The Salar de Atacama Basin is an active volcanic territory within the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes (CVZA). From the El Tatio geothermal field to Socompa volcano, more than 19 active volcanoes surround the territory that the Lickanantay (Atacameno) people have inhabited for more than 11,000 years. Living around and with the geological dynamism of the CVZA for millennia, the Lickanantay communities have accumulated rich observational and ceremonial data on volcanoes and volcanism. Paradoxically, however, while the Atacameno people have thoroughly characterized the CVZA, the volcanology community has not been properly introduced to the ancestral knowledge articulated in the territory. In order to make traditional Atacameno perspectives on volcanoes, volcanic risk, and geo-cosmic interdependence more amply available to the volcanology community, in this article, we present a basic description of what we call Atacameno volcanology. By Atacameno volcanology, we understand the ancestral principles by which volcanoes are known and understood as partaking in larger processes of a cosmo-ecological formation. Specifically, we describe the basic volcanological notions arising from the Lickanantay ancestral knowledge-volcanic formation, functions, and behavior. Second, we focus on the El Tatio geothermal field to offer a situated example. Finally, we delineate some relevant elements of human-volcano interactions and volcanic risk management from an Atacameno perspective. In our conclusions we suggest that volcanology, particularly in the context of the Andes, needs to engage more substantially with the Atacameno or other ancestral systems of knowledge production to expand volcanological insights and respond to the call for decolonizing science.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/feart.2022.909967
dc.identifier.eissn2296-6463
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.909967
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/93165
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000837117700001
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaFrontiers in earth science
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectLickanantay
dc.subjectvolcanology
dc.subjectindigenous knowledge
dc.subjectSalar de Atacama
dc.subjectrisk management
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.titleAn Inside Sun: Lickanantay Volcanology in the Salar de Atacama
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen10
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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