De la cotidianidad a la ritualidad de las calabazas durante el período intermedio tardío en el desierto de Atacama, Chile
Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino 2021 DOI: 10.4067/s0718-68942021000200045 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
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| Population | Gourds from the Late Intermediate Period (1000-1430 AD) in Peru |
| Key points | Argues that funeral gourds from the Late Intermediate Period manifest an ideological function regarding power relations, linked to the consumption of fermented beverages and entheogenic substances, and to altered states of consciousness. |
Abstract
the gourds from attributed to the Late Intermediate Period (1000-1430 ad). The analysis is carried out from a mate-rialistic archaeosemiotic approach, relating Peircean semiotics to categories of the concrete society. A division is identified between the uses of the gourds and forms of sociability in daily-domestic and magical-religious ritual life, and the gourds are conceived as iconographic media that reflect the forms of social consciousness of a dominant group. It is concluded that these funeral objects and their signs not only represent prestige and distinction goods, but also manifest an ideological function regarding power relations, linked to the consumption of fermented beverages and entheogenic substances, and to altered states of consciousness.