Towards Abra de Punta Corral: Movements, Dances and Natural Elements at Andean World Rituals (Northwestern Argentina)
Abstract
This research is part of a broader project in relation to dances, movements and natural elements integrated in rituals and festivities at the Argentinean Northwest over time and in different geographical areas. The same one is about the analysis of the moving body, from Body Anthropology perspective, raised in the Pilgrimage to Abra de Punta Corral Sanctuary, which takes place every year from Tilcara, Jujuy Province. The theoretical and conceptual framework adopted is belonging to the Embodiment paradigm insert in Phenomenology. The main objective is to decide in this festivity-ritual the relationships between corporality, movement and power or empowerment, individual as well as collective, especially considering the sikuris bands involved. The methodology includes fieldwork in relation to ethnography methods within the proposed framework. According to observation and analysis, movements and dances performance are the genuine expression of each individual and human groups that make the role of actors and social groups, and also denote, in time and space, several constant and variable social structure aspects.Downloads
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