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MANSILLA TORRES, Sergio. Mutaciones culturales de Chiloé: los mitos y las leyendas en la modernidad neoliberal isleña. Convergencia [online]. 2009, vol.16, n.51, pp.271-299. ISSN 2448-5799.

The conflict between cultural tradition and modernity on the islands of Chiloé, Chile, intensified at the beginning of the decade of 1980, when Chiloé became a centre of aquiculture production for large-scale export, it renews, in the early XXI Century, the foundational myth of the islands: Ten-Ten Vilú, the serpent of the land, who defends humans, and Cai-Cai Vilú, the serpent of the seas, who wishes to exterminate them. Chiloé finds itself, if not in a refoundational stage, in one of profound mutations in its identity; a stage in which, once again, as in mythological origins, apparently irreconcilable forces are confronted, tensioning the chilote ways of being, living and dreaming.

Palavras-chave : Chiloé mythology; island modernity; cultural mutation; chilote identity.