Performance y ciudadanía

El danzar andino como acto de reconocimiento

Bibliographic Data

ID3012264
AuthorsAndrea Chamorro (0000-0003-2552-1681, University of Tarapacá, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume68
Pagese5022
Publication date2022-11-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEstudios Atacameños Arqueología y antropología surandinas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0716-0925 • E-ISSN: 0718-1043
PublisherUniversidad Catolica del Norte - Chile (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2022-0023
OpenAlexW4306405188
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited16

In the northernmost parts of Chile, assimilation policies that defined indigenous populations as "foreign" and racially non-white characterized the construction of the Chilean nation-state. Despite discrimination and stigmatization, the Aymara people have maintained festive-ritual ties to their native territories in the Andes and modernized their festivals, ceremonies, dances, and music in urban settings. Considering the practices, views and emotions of the Aymara dancers and their descendants, I suggest that the performances at the Andean Carnival Inti Ch'amampi, Con La Fuerza del Sol in Arica - a city in the Arica and Parinacota Region of Chile - embody the practices and experiences of a people that problematizes their historical alterity from the Chilean nation and the schema of social, historical and political representation imposed upon them under the logic of legal citizenship. As such, the performances are political strategies to intervene and dialogue with public space and position embodied memories and knowledge to outline a landscape that becomes multiple

Art · Humanities · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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