At the sun’s rhythm, under the ancestors’s guardianship. Ritual performance in la Peña del Medio during the late-inca, Paicuqui (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca Province)
Authors
María Lorena Cohen
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Agustina Ponce
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Verónica Puente
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
We interpret how actors, time, landscape, and corporality combined with ritual performance developed in “Peña del Medio” during the Late-Inca period in Paicuqui, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca (Argentina). The employment of landscape archaeology’s tools complemented with chronicles, ethnography data, and conversations with local inhabitants, enabled us to reach to a characterization of those practices. Further, we present new data recently obtained, to make an integral analysis that include the summit spaces of the ‘peña’ that we treat here, and the spaces of the base of the hill. We suggest that these celebrations were shaped as performances that made possible the integration and cohesion of diverse groups, through rituals aimed at tutelary entities such as the sun, the ancestors, and the hills.
Keywords:
ritual performance, sun, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Late Inca, landscape
Cohen, M. L., Ponce, A., & Puente, V. (2020). At the sun’s rhythm, under the ancestors’s guardianship. Ritual performance in la Peña del Medio during the late-inca, Paicuqui (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca Province). Revista Chilena De Antropología, (42), 190–217. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2020.60490
