Abstract

CAMPOS MUNOZ, Luis. El culto de las imágenes y la performance ritual en la Pampa del Tamarugal. Intersecciones antropol. [online]. 2016, vol.17, n.1, pp.5-18. ISSN 1850-373X.

This article addresses the cult of images on the feast of the Virgen del Carmen Tamarugal, in the region of Tarapaca, in northern Chile. The iconographic description of the "andas" (structures built for transferring and displaying a religious image) that each religious society built for this feast and the cultural performance involved during the days that the ritual is carried out is also presented in this paper. There are more than two hundred dances in each celebration and all of them have its own altar, which in turn are decorated with varied motives. This ornamentation is aimed to generate a sense of unit in the corps of dancers, and to communicate the distinctive characteristics of their identity to the other religious societies, to the official church, and to the thousands of spectators. A photographic record of one hundred images, the iconographic analysis of the components of the altars, the corporality, the sonority, the temporality and the spatiality that come into play during the ritual presentation are particularly analyzed. Consequently, this work approaches the cultural performance by considering the evocations the icons displayed on the altars make evident.

Keywords : Religious celebration; Chile; Altars; Cultural performance.

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