Abstract

CAMPENY, Sara M. L. López  and  ROMANO, Andrés S.. FOLLOWING THE THREAD: CAMELID-HUMAN-TEXTILES ASSEMBLAGE. A MULTI-SCALAR AND MULTI-TEMPORAL VISION. Relaciones [online]. 2021, vol.46, n.1, pp.41-60. ISSN 0325-2221.

From a perspective akin to the New materialismfield, our analysis is more interested in the textile materializationprocesses, rather than their materiality. This entails an understanding of the fibers in their fluid condition, as a material that is constantly developing and inpermanent dialogue, through mediation networks, with humans and other-than-humans. We intend to assemble, under a common perspective, different methodological approaches that are generally not articulated in research, as well as different scales of perception of the material. A multitemporal vision is included, which seeks to rescue the persistent points and connections between different pasts. These proposals were applied to depositionalpre-Hispanic contexts belonging to a sector of Puna de Antofagasta de la Sierra (NW of Catamarca, Argentina). The textile pieces under analysis display particular space-time associations, which refer to the 6th-7th and 14th-15th centuries of the Christian Era, approximately.

Keywords : Antofagasta de la Sierra; assemblages; textiles; camelids; fibers.

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