My research explores colonial-era Indigenous communities in the Chiloé Archipelago, Southern Chile. I study Indigenous participation and self-representation in judicial proceedings during the 18th century as a way of interrogating processes of social identity formation in Chiloé. I am interested in analyzing colonial corporate community formation and reproduction beyond discrete ethnic lines in this extreme borderlands region, instead following processes of ethnogenesis structured along tributary, geographic, occupational, and foral/customary lines.

I incorporate GIS methods as a central part of my research. I am interested in working with, and teaching, GIS exclusively using open-source datasets and software. I offer my services producing commissioned cartography; please write to me if you are interested in collaborating.

Puedes encontrar traducciones al castellano de mis publicaciones en: https://saintmarys.academia.edu/JavierEtchegaray