Animales en acción

Usos rituales de fauna silvestre y de representaciones zoomorfas en contextos incaicos del Pucará de Tilcara (Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina)

Bibliographic Data

ID3018963
AuthorsC Otero (0000-0001-6408-2955, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, corresponding author), Mauricio Sebastián Akmentins (0000-0003-1313-9899, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Andrés Sebastián Quinteros (0000-0002-0363-9163, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
Year2021
Volume67
Pagese3926
Publication date2021-05-14
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.0718-1043-2021-0005
OpenAlexW3145105330
LanguageES
Citations received4
References cited18

Inca religious beliefs and practices, with greater emphasis during its promulgation throughout the Tawantinsuyu, were consolidated with the articulation of ideas and rituals from the natural and supernatural environment. They get improved with the evocation of a mythical past that conditioned the present, and the veneration of a wide range of beings and elements of the stellar, human, animal and landscape order. In this work we analyze the evidence that refers to the religious manifestations of the inhabitants of Pucará de Tilcara, defined as the capital of the Inca province of Omaguaca. Among the set of materialities, through an interdisciplinary approach nourished mainly by herpetology, we study the archaeological contexts that involved the manipulation of wildlife, as well as the use of objects with varied zoomorphic representations. The interpretation of the archaeological record, also appealing to its correlation with anthropological and ethnohistoric sources, allowed us to say that certain animals, as well as their representations, functioned as active means of the natural environment to encourage fertility, promote the socioeconomic reproduction of communities, access to the germination power of ancestors and identify climatic and temporal marks

Archaeology · Domestication · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Geography · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Veneration · Wildlife · Anthropology · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology

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