…and re-adaptation” (1680–1722 A.D.), which ended when the island was first visited by Europeans. Around 1600 A.D., competition between clans to claim more territory and enhance their prestige by building…
Social organization
…the church. Modern Aymara social organizations include urban associations created to assist highland residents who come to the city for a time, or to organize collective labor to help the…
History
…spoke their native tongue and were only able to communicate with Spanish speakers through interpreters. Three decades later a ‘bilingual’ system was imposed on the group that made Spanish the…
Settlement Pattern
…in ravines or near small plots around highland wetlands. Settlements in Ollagüe are located in the Puquios, Cohasa, Del Inca, Caichape and Amincha ravines, while in the Quechua communities of…
Social organization
…the group or inherited the title as the son or friend of a former chief. Marriage was allowed after coming of age, and at the same time a Kawésqar also…
The pictographs of Cueva Blanca
…disappearing altogether. The representation of individuals with poweremblems (sceptres) positioned hierarchically above other figures in the same composition points to distinctions in status that were likely based on the control…
Arte
…use of monochromatic surfaces, a preference for dark tones, and emphasis on molded decorations. The Pitrén produced a large variety of ceramic forms that range from simple globular bottles to…
Economy
…These coastal hunter-gatherer-fishers had a subsistence economy based on hunting, fishing and gathering of marine resources such as mollusks, fish, marine mammals and sea birds. They complemented their diet…
History
…European and local mestizo settlers was facilitated by restricting local indigenous inhabitants to small plots of communally held land. The direct consequences of this process for Mapuche society included a…
Culto y Funebria
…These southern inland hunters buried their dead in a variety of ways. The most common type of burial is that of the steppe peoples of historic times, who placed…
Art
…black and very finely polished. Common pieces include pukos or bowls, pots, round pitchers, jars and cups, some of them decorated with abstract images of human faces or geometric patterns…
Bolsa – Faja
…Tejido de urdimbre complementaria, fibra de camélido. Por lo general, la cara interior de estas fajas, que va pegada al cuerpo, sólo presenta listados. Hacia el final de la…
Paño: inkuña
…en la iconografía religiosa de las culturas contemporáneas del altiplano peruano-boliviano, como Pucara y Chiripa. Comparte con los tejidos tempranos andinos, el rasgo técnico de encadenar las orillas finales de…
Bolsa – Chuspa con borla
…Tejido de urdimbre complementaria, bordado en puntada de tallo sobre algodón y flecadura por torsión (borlas), fibra de camélido. El motivo central de esta bolsa es un personaje antropomorfo…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…can be traced back to the Chinchorro culture and the Huentelauquén complex. Within this belief system, ancestor worship seems to hold a special place. In pre-Hispanic times the dead were…
Language
…The Aymara language belongs to the jaqi family. It is polysynthetic and agglutinative, with a tendency to employ suffixes. It is both complex and regular, using compound words where…
Jarro polícromo zoomorfo
…cocción es bastante deficiente en comparación con la excelencia alcanzada en engobes y decoración. La vasija sugiere la representación de un felino, aunque faltan por erosión algunos elementos para definirlo,…
Language
…know about this language, as it disappeared quickly after the Spanish conquest, according to historians. Present-day Diaguita communities in Chile speak Spanish only. According to scholar Ricardo Latcham, surnames ending…
Toasting, Inka Style
…In the past, toasting with alcoholic beverages was both a central element of Andean celebrations and a political ritual. When the Inka arrived to conquer a region, they…
Historia
…In many ways, the Las Ánimas groups broke with the past to begin a new cultural tradition. The formerly common tembetás or lip adornments of the El Molle culture…
Social Organization Depicted on a Gourd
…trajes en forma de escudo y otros cinco llevan lo que parecen ser corazas de cuero, uno de los cuales sostiene un hacha en la mano. El personaje restante combina…
Agricultural-pastoralists of the arid north
…Both farming and herding required a great deal of collective labor, which in turn led to the emergence of a more complex social structurein which the existence of local authorities…
Social Organization
…Traditional Colla society is organized on the basis of family and friendship ties among people living in the same locality. With the official constitution of indigenous communities under Indigenous…