PLANTAS MEDICINALES DEL SUR DE CHILE EN LA ÉPOCA COLONIAL. UNA APROXIMACIÓN DESDE LA HISTORIA AMBIENTAL HACIA EL CONOCIMIENTO SOCIONATURAL (1646-1732)

The aim of this article is to propose the topic of natural medicinal knowledge as a relevant issue for Environmental History, insofar as they constitute a form of relationship between humanity and nature, also resorting to the tools proposed by the History of Knowledge. Starting from this theoretical crossing, the intention is to address the historicity of the knowledge about Chilean medicinal plants, investigating their approach between the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th centuries by the four authors who described them in their works: Alonso de Ovalle, Diego de Rosales, Louis Feuillée and Amédée François Frézier.