Description of Shepherds and farmers of Socoroma
The results of an investigation on ecological complementarity in an Aymara community located in the Sierra de Huaylillas, Arica-Parinacota Region, are presented. Based on historical research and ethnographic data, it was analyzed in diachronic perspective the ecological complementarity displayed by Socoroma’s families with aim of accessing to resources in multiples productive zones. The ethnography highlights that during the 20th century this system was characterized by a pattern of mobility and temporary residence linking the territory both intra-communal -between the different populated localities of the community space- and extra-communal -in displacements towards the coast, adjacent valleys and highlands. It is proposed that during the last century this way of inhabiting and integrating the territory rested mainly on pastoral dynamics, which intensified and constrained the modes of ecological complementarity according to different historical contexts