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This present book is a first approach to two anthropological traditions that base their research in the desert: the deserts of Northern Mexico and the Atacama desert in northern Chile. This volume presents archaeological, historical anthropological, general anthropology and cultural and social perspectives, on the construction process of the cultures of the desert in two spectra of our America, from North to South are concatenated the dialogues between different levels of material culture, as well as ethnic and social manifestations in the invention of collective identities and social organization, the distant past is trapped in the materiality of the cultures and historical and ethnographic perspective show us the cultures in the wide world of the desert. The edition is the outcome of years of research in the deserts of Sonora and Chihuahua in Mexico, and in Atacama in Chile, comprising 16 essays from different academics from Mexican and Chilean institutions.