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.1635
Abstract
En mi aporte analizaré dos tipos de figuras y sus contextos, las que muestran entre sí una estrecha relación y simultáneamente diferencias profundas: el diseño llamado corte grande o kurti, y las figuras denominadas curandero, Kallawaya. El primer diseño va bajo la rúbrica de los diseños “abstractos” y el segundo bajo aquella de los diseños figurativos. Antes de aparecer en los tejidos, ambos debían transformarse en figuras de memoria en el sentido de Assmann (2000). Los dos diseños y sus contextos, percibidos como reflejos de etapas específicas de procesos más largos y complejos, permiten explorar, por lo menos en parte, el desarrollo de los Kallawaya como grupo local y como profesionales bajo las condiciones de procesos étnicos y de la formación del estado nación.
In this paper, I shall analyse two kinds of designs and their contexts. The designs are closely connected with each other and simultaneously show profound differences: the sequence composed of a number of identical elements called corte grande or kurti, and the figures referred to as curandero, Kallawaya. The first design is defined as “abstract” and the second as figurative. Before they appeared in textiles, both had to be transformed into memory figures in Assmann’s (2000) sense. Perceived as reflections of specific stages of much longer and more complex processes, the two designs and their contexts allow exploring at least partly, the development of the Kallawaya as a local group and as professionals under conditions of ethnic and of nation building processes.
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