Quepis, ancestros y territorios: prácticas rituales históricas en contextos prehispánicos en Antofagasta de la Sierra, Noroeste Argentino

Article

Authorship

COHEN, MARIA LORENA ; Martinez, Maria Soledad

Date

2022

Publishing House and Editing Place

Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Tarpacá

Magazine

Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena, vol. 54 (pp. 291-307) - ISSN 0717-7356
Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Tarpacá

ISSN

0717-7356

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The purpose of this article is to present material in order to discuss the interpretation of a particular set of disordered, tied up objects, typical of Republican times, known in the Andean world as q’epi. Furthermore, the selection of the elements that make up the q’epi and their social meanings will be addressed, as well as the consequences that laying these elements in a pre-Hispanic cist had on the territory. The finding context is part of an architectural ensemble located at t... The purpose of this article is to present material in order to discuss the interpretation of a particular set of disordered, tied up objects, typical of Republican times, known in the Andean world as q’epi. Furthermore, the selection of the elements that make up the q’epi and their social meanings will be addressed, as well as the consequences that laying these elements in a pre-Hispanic cist had on the territory. The finding context is part of an architectural ensemble located at the top of a rock, corresponding to the Peñas Coloradas 3 cumbre (PC3c) site in the town of Antofagasta de la Sierra in the Argentine Southern Puna. We consider that the burial of the q’epi in a pre-Hispanic cist stands as a significant practice, which is typical of the configuration of an ancestral territory, where the reproduction of ritual practices of pre-Hispanic roots endure with changes in new socio-political frameworks.