Abstract

GIOVANNETTI, Marco. ANDEAN RITUAL AND SPATIALITY THROUGH ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES. COSMOGONIC-ONTOLOGICAL CONFLUENCES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF SACRED SPACES BETWEEN EL SHINCAL DE QUIMIVIL AND CURRENT CEREMONIES OF CUSQUEÑO ORIGIN.. Comechingonia [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp.1-10. ISSN 1851-0027.

In this work, it is proposed through a double ethnographic and archaeological approach, understand logics of sacralization of the Andean space. Without pretending to make direct analogies, basing  on  the  critical  discussions  of  ethnographic  archaeology,  is  sought  through  examples of ceremonies performed by migrant Cusqueños in the city of La Plata (nucleated in the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua) understand certain ways of structuring the space in the Inka site El Shincal de Quimivil in the province of Catamarca. They are taken as theoretical references the postulates of relational ontologies to interpellate the Inka archaeological record from the games of conformation of the segmented, ordered and nested space through rules of opposition and complementarity translated into duality, tripartition and quadripartition, and fractal inclusion schemes. From the analysis of different empirical planes of El Shincal, it is proposed to interpret the possible Inka intention to construct a sacred space as a way to expand the conquest of new territories appealing to the search for alliances with non-human agents endowed with power.

Keywords : sacred landscapes-andean ontologies, Tawantinsuyu, Argentine Northwest, Ethnographic Archaeology.

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