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In the South-Central Andes, the use of the term pukara is ambiguous, since it is used to refer to fortresses, fortified villages, naturally impregnable settlements, or strategic sites that controlled resources or circulation routes. Chronologically,…
Ruiz, Marta S.

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This essay proposes an approach to Andean space from a critical perspective on “landscape” as a modern historical construction that configures Andean space as an “object” opposed to a “subjectum” (subject), as elaborated by Descartes in the…
Vilca, Mario

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This article proposes alternative methods for moving beyond the functionalist and essentialist paradigms still operative in many aspects of Andean Studies. As part of this prevailing paradigm, it examines the functionalist approach to culture and…
Arnold, Denise

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The purpose of this paper is to present different aspects related to lightning and its cult in the Puna of Jujuy, Argentina, drawing on documentary material from the early twentieth century as well as on contemporary ethnography. It seeks to reflect…
Bugallo, Lucila

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This essay analyzes the relationship between human beings and the environment in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, province of Jujuy, Argentina, within the sphere of livestock production. The analysis is based on ethnographic sources and on texts that…
Mamaní, Lina María

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The decision to erect some kind of construction—a house, a corral, or a pirca wall—entails the mobilization of a great deal of knowledge, both technical and design-related. At the same time, the moment of construction requires the mobilization of a…
Tomasi, Jorge

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The pesebres, or Jujuy Nativity-scene rituals, constitute one of the most valuable expressions of Jujuy’s symbolic heritage. During the period that includes the preparations for their assembly, at the beginning of December, and their closing,…
Quiroz, Angélica

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This paper presents a preliminary study of the ceramic material from Unit 1 of the Corrales sector of the urbanized settlement SJuj Til 1, known as Pucará de Tilcara, located in the middle sector of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, province of Jujuy.…
Piñeiro, Mónica

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This article presents an analysis of the All Souls’ Day ritual, a cultural phenomenon belonging to the peoples of Andean origin in Northwestern Argentina. To this end, I observed how the Ramos family performs the ritual in the Quebrada de Humahuaca,…
Torino, Georgina Soledad

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Current views of the archaeology of the agro-ceramic periods in the Quebrada de Humahuaca are strongly biased toward highly visible sites located near communication routes. These biases are partly created by the use of data collection methods…
Nielsen, Axel E.

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This paper seeks to address the religious festivity in honor of the Señor de Quillacas, held in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy. The religious performance presented here is a celebration dedicated to the patron saint of a locality in Oruro,…
Guzmán, Juan

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In 2008, the celebrations of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, patron saint of Humahuaca and Puno, coincided on February 2 with the beginning of carnival. At the same time, the authors of this article were conducting fieldwork, each in one of the…
Podhajcer, Adil

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In this paper, I describe and analyze Argentine folk dance competitions. Through the theory of ritualization, I show how the strategies deployed generate hierarchical systems. Participation in this system, however, is experienced by dancers as a…
Hirose, María Belén

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We present here the first results of an interdisciplinary research project at La Falda, a late-period cemetery located within the urban area of Tilcara, in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina. Several highly distinctive funerary features were…
Mendonça, Osvaldo J.

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Our research on Jujuy musical folklore follows Giddens’s notion of “double hermeneutics” (1987), which assigns scientific thought the task of interpreting what has already been interpreted by social actors. In this sense, productive research on the…
Perassi, Lucas Andrés

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