Condimentos antropológicos para un es-cena teatral mito, rito y chamanismo en la representación intercultural
C. Araya
June 30, 2017 DOI: 10.35197/rx.13.01.2017.01.ce (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Ethnography |
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| Key findings | Argues that anthropology and theater can together help disseminate indigenous cultural creations, illustrated through an ethnographic project that collected contemporary versions of the Mapuche "Kai Kai - Treng Treng" myth to write and stage a theater script. The authors describe myth, ritual, and shamanism as the cultural elements informing data collection and scriptwriting, and stress the ethical responsibilities of intercultural representation. |
Abstract
espanolEl presente articulo es resultado de una investigacion que tuvo por objeto recoger versiones contemporaneas del mito mapuche Kai Kai -Treng Treng con la intencion de elaborar un guion teatral y su posterior puesta en escena. La investigacion, basada en el metodo etnografico, reflexiona respecto al aporte de la antropologia y el teatro para contribuir a la difusion de las creaciones culturales indigenas, tomando en cuenta las responsabilidades eticas que implica la representacion intercultural. Se describen y analizan antropologicamente los elementos culturales –mito, rito y chamanismo- que fueron tomados en cuenta para recoger la informacion y construir el guion teatral. EnglishFor this research we collected contemporary versions of the Mapuche “Kai Kai- Treng Treng” myth, with the aim of writing a theater script of the myth. Data was collected using ethnographic methods and focus on the interdisciplinary contribution of anthropology and theater to the creative cultural process of indigenous people and to the input that these disciplines can make in this way, considering the ethic responsabilities that underlie at the process of intercultural representation. The cultural elements – myths, ritual, shamanism-that were taken into consideration during data collecting and writing of the theater scrip are described and analyzed from an anthropological perspective.