Centre for Textile Research
Date of this Version
2024
Document Type
Article
Citation
Published in IX Jornadas Internacionales de Textiles Precolombinos y Amerindianos / 9th International Conference on Pre-Columbian and Amerindian Textiles, Museo delle Culture, Milan, 2022. (Lincoln, Nebraska: Zea Books, 2024)
DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1637
Abstract
En la Puna salto jujeña (extremo noroeste de Argentina), se celebran todos los años una serie de festividades que vinculan la tradición católica con una serie de rituales, cuyos orígenes tienen profundas raíces prehispánicas. En estas celebraciones se entrelazan música, atuendos, danzas y ceremonias. Una de esas expresiones sincréticas es la denominada Danza del Suri. Sus participantes, también llamados samilantes o “plumudos” se destacan por el uso de un particular atavío, cuya finalidad tiene como objetivo encarnar el aspecto y la conducta del suri o ñandú cordillerano (ave no voladora) que se extiende por el área cordillerana desde el altiplano hasta la Patagonia. Entre la comunidad Kolla, este traje ceremonial cobra interés, porque es mantenido al interior de familias y es heredado de generación en generación. En el presente trabajo intentaremos profundizar la confección y funcionalidad de este atuendo ceremonial, aproximarnos a su interpretación y el contexto donde tiene lugar; todo ello desde una etnografía compartida. Es decir, desde una convergencia de intereses y un intercambio de conocimientos entre los sujetos indígenas y los investigadores, estableciendo un diálogo permanente y una retroalimentación que privilegia, la diversidad de modos de análisis indígenas y sus propias epistemologías.
Several festivities are held every year in the Salto-Jujeña Puna (extreme Northwestern Argentina). These festivities mingle Catholic tradition with rituals of deep Pre-Hispanic roots. Dancing, music, costumes and ceremonies are interwoven during these ceremonies. One of these syncretic expressions is known as the “Suri Dance.” Participants, also called “samilantes” or “plumudos” (the feathery ones) are highlighted due to their attires, which aim to resemble the cordilleran suri or ñandú, and mimic its behavior. By “suri” we mean a non-flying bird, that lives in the cordilleran territory that spreads from the Altiplano to the Patagonian region. For the Kolla community, this ceremonial costume is quite valuable since it is preserved by each family and passed from generation to generation. In this work, we try to get deep into the making process and function of this particular ceremonial costume, aiming at interpreting both the attire and the context where it is used – all this research is carried out with an ethnographic perspective. Which means that we aim at a convergence of the indigenous subjects’ and the researchers’ concerns by establishing an enduring dialogue and a feedback process that would favor the indigenous diverse visions and their own epistemologies.
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