INVESTIGADORES
FIORE Danae
artículos
Título:
Relational bodies: Affordances, substances and embodiment in Chinchorro funerary practices c. 7000-3250 BP
Autor/es:
MONTT, INDIRA; FIORE, DÁNAE; SANTORO, CALOGERO M.; ARRIAZA, BERNARDO
Revista:
ANTIQUITY
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Referencias:
Año: 2021 vol. 95 p. 1405 - 1425
ISSN:
0003-598X
Resumen:
Funerary art has the body as its main material component, expresses responses to death and offers insight into relationships between the living and the dead. Chinchorro hunter-gatherer-fisher societies along the Atacama Desert coast provide a key example of such connections, having developed one of the world´s oldest-known systems of post-mortem body transformation (c. 7000-3250 BP). A study of 162 modified Chinchorro bodies identifies diachronic changes in these practices, including a decrease in internal stuffing - adding invisible contents that created corporeal volume - and an increase in external body treatment that created visible features. The authors propose that such manipulation was a meaningful form of social embodiment designed to construct a collective identity.
