Porque allá nací y allá me crié. Identidad y memoria de los últimos habitantes de la pampa salitrera de Tarapacá. 1930-1979: El caso de los pampinos de Arica

This article analyzes the social representations inscribed in various oral testimonies of people currently living in the city of Arica (northern Chile) and that inhabited the nitrate fields of Tarapacá between 1930 and 1979, this with the intention of identifying the meanings that surround the "be pampino". Self-identification as pampino or pampina is approached from the theories of identity and memory, which can drill in both individual and group elements that has the memory and family cultural transmission. It argües that the pampinos they reached the city of Arica, with their belongings, moved their identity, which over the years was contributing to the construction of a collective memory.