Female prostitution in corporate towns, boomtowns and ports from Chile’s nitrate era, has been scarcely addressed by history and social sciences, despite the important role played by sex workers in the newly created social order generated by the nitrate boom, as well as in the conformation of a pampino identity. We contend here that the regimes of morality strongly condition the practice of prostitution generating an archival and material correlate which can be studied ‘against the grain’. Thus, we propose theoretical and methodological guidelines stemming from the fields of subaltern studies and industrial archaeology, aiming at documenting and making prostitution visible in the context of nitrate exploitation at the turn of the twentieth century.
Kalazich, F. (2018). For a study of prostitution in the nitrate pampas. Notes from subaltern studies and industrial archaeology. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (37), 131–142. Retrieved from https://revistachilenahumanidades.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/49487
