“…As a 1998 report by the United Nations Development Program shows, a move toward individualism, unrest, and uncertainty characterized Chilean society in the 1990s (UNDP 1998). Research in anthropology from the 1990s already warned all of us that inequality affects the lives of Indigenous peoples, women, sexual dissidents, urban settlers, farmers, and fishers, among many others (Sadler and Acuña 2003;Cancino and Morales 2003;Gundermann and González 2009;Márquez and Skewes 2018;Pérez 2018). However, what is sadly true is that for the most part these studies have had little or no presence in public debate and have been restricted in their circulation mainly to the academy.…”