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 January 1, 2021 Peer reviewed DOI: 10.4067/s0718-68942021000200045 via Semantic Scholar
Summary
Gourds from the Late Intermediate Period (1000-1430 AD) served as iconographic media reflecting the social consciousness of a dominant group. A materialistic archaeosemiotic approach, combining Peircean semiotics with categories of concrete society, reveals a division between daily-domestic and magical-religious ritual uses. These funeral objects and their signs functioned ideologically, representing prestige and distinction goods while manifesting power relations linked to fermented beverage and entheogenic substance consumption and altered states of consciousness.
Study at a glance
| Design | theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Population | gourds from the Late Intermediate Period (1000-1430 AD) |
| Key finding | Funeral gourds and their signs from the Late Intermediate Period served an ideological function regarding power relations, linked to consumption of fermented beverages and entheogenic substances and 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.