Una aproximación a la sacralidad de los espacios domésticos del primer milenio en Valle de Tafí (Noroeste Argentino)

Abstract

This paper reflects on the ways in which the sacredness was built and lived as an inseparable aspect of daily life. The position that supposes the sacred as a totally differentiated reality, which is manifested upon an object or a place, is supported by some modern dichotomies, especially those of matter and mind, nature and culture. This a priori division has prevented understanding social processes in which such areas (natural and cultural, material and immaterial, the sacred and the profane) did not exist in themselves. We illustrate that the sacred, in the specific context of the first millennium in Tafi Valley, is not a symbolic essence that floats over certain materials; it is constructed through the practices of multiple, human and nonhumans, agents, historically contextualized in different areas of daily life.