Ethnohistory and Disability, Disability and Culture: The Case of a Group of People with Disabilities, Indigenous in Chile

This article is a pioneer in disability studies in Latin America, since it shows the ethnohistorical relevance of disability. If empre has seen disability as “less than”, in Latin America disability is synonymous with “lack of capacity” by capacity, we understand being able to do something, then it is an even greater challenge for the States in Latin America, to have the capacity to understand a person with a disability and effectively enforce the articles of the “convection on the rights of persons with disabilities”. This Little article refers to occupational health and the eighth article of the convention “Awareness”. This ethnohistorical anthropological reflection will give clues to comply with this article, by positioning not only the disability in a synchronic moment but in a diachronic process.

Keyword: Hetnohisory, disability, different productions mode.