Lucerne it’s a foreigner grass. It’s part of the political economy of the colonization and the arrival of plants, technologies and animals carried out for the colonial project. We expose a biography of this plant in the Atacama Desert based on a review of historical and ethnographic sources, with the objective of understand how, through her dissemination, the mining is inscribed on her rural face, articulating the agrarian landscapes of the territory and the Indian economy. The Lucerne contain, in some sense, elements to understand the glocal agency of the regional mining spaces.
Carmona, J. (2018). Lucerne and mining in the southern Andean desert. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (37), 213–229. Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/49502
