Altares para los muertos en los Andes

PABLO F. SENDÓN; VIVIANA MANRÍQUEZ

Anthropos

Anthropos Institute

Lugar: Sankt Agustin; Año: 2016 vol. 111 p. 415 - 431

0257-9774

Focusing on the description of the funerary altars to the dead made in Southern Peru and Northern Chile, this work aims to highlight their wide presence in the Central and the Southern Andes, and to delve into some relevant dimensions (spatial, mythical, and ritual), which refer to a set of common problems more or less explicit in the different casuistries under consideration. Secondly, it inquires about the pertinence of going beyond the conceptual boundaries which separate the populations of the so called ?highlands? and ?lowlands? in this area of South America. Thirdly, it considers the heuristic value of the notion of ?boundary? in order to find a synthesis to the problems dealt with in the analysis.