Del fondo de los Andes al fin del mundo, aguas abajo. El espacio de los mitos y el espacio de los muertos entre los chimane de la Amazonía boliviana. A partir de representaciones referentes al cosmos plasmadas en los mitos y de aquéllas relativas al destino post mortem, este artículo expone algunos...

Este artigo pretende debater sobre as cosmologias originárias, especificamente, dos povos andinos e Kaingang, uma vez que é necessário esclarecer os saberes ancestrais como fontes de pesquisa e estudos na educação. Assim, o objetivo da escrita é aproximar as cosmologias desses povos com a educação d...

A new archaeological culture, named Mayo Chinchipe, has recently been discovered on the headwaters of the Ecuadorian western Amazon. Santa Ana–La Florida, a ceremonial center with important architectural remains, was occupied by the third millennium BC. Evidence of specialized crafts, such as potter...

This photo essay opens a window on the life of the Misak Indians in the northern Colombian Andes. The Misak, who live in the high plateaus, struggle to keep their sacred territory and to reproduce their traditional knowledge. During fieldwork in 2016, I explored the Misak’s traditional learning meth...

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The memorial The Eye that Cries was erected as a tribute to the victims of the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000). It is the work of the artist Lika Mutal in coordination with various human rights activists and is a continuation of the work done by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (C...

Las investigaciones recientes sobre las prácticas simbólicas andinas han demostrado que la expresión de lo cosmológico no es exclusiva de ninguno de los numerosos discursos (paralelos, superpuestos o imbricados) que componen, en los Andes centrales, una performance ritual y/o musical. Esta concepció...

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Abstract: Pacchas were ritual vessels used in libations and expressed elements of pre-Hispanic cosmology in the Andes long after the Spanish conquest. This article describes, for the first time, annular pacchas from Cusco from the Colonial Period and the 19th and 20th centuries. These pacchas are di...

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Congreso Nacional de Arqueología, Lima, PER, 08-/08/2017 - 11/08/2017 Trabajos arqueológicos recientes efectuados en la cuenca del Mayo Chinchipe - Marañón han demostrado la existencia de una antiguacultura, previamente desconocida, que pone en relieve la interaccióncontinua que existió desde épocas...

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Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many Latin-American writers ventured themselves in the creation of written versions of the traditional Andean oral tale Manchay Puytu. In this article, I propose myself to analyse how some of these versions reflected projects of society conceived by th...

Prehispanic Andean music has been the subject of numerous studies, predominantly musicological. This doctoral work offers a different analysis, taking an archaeological approach to contextualize musical and sonic practices from the Prehispanic central Andes. It is from archaeological contextual anal...

Although, during this period, societies of southwestern Colombia shared a common tradition in technology and belief systems, elements of which extended to neighbouring regions of Ecuador, studies of detailed aspects of this tradition are still fairly scarce. The crocodile, represented in pottery, go...

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The notion of hechicería (sorcery) stood at the centre of the encounters between Andean people and Europeans from the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century. It shaped European perceptions and actions; it led to the persecution of Andean people. The notion of hechicería also began to shape Andean...