Nación y ritualidad en el desierto chileno: Representaciones y discursos nacionales en Iquique (1900 - 1930)

this article aims at discussing the role that civic ceremonies andmonuments played in the early 20th century, as dynamic mechanisms for the"chileanization" in the tarapacá desert, especially in the port of iquique. this workthinks from a social historical perspective, about the public celebrations as symbolicrites, where integration and/or belonging to the national community is materialized.these civic events were no less persuasive than other rather "violent" ways ofpromoting the sense of nation in the new territories added to the chilean state.