Publication: Las listas de la túnica del Ser Mítico Antropomorfo de Nasca: el significado iconográfico según pautas en los textiles y la música contemporáneos de los Andes surcentrales.
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Arnold, Denise Y.
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El Ser Mítico Antropomorfo, personaje que define la iconografía textil y cerámica de Nasca, suele vestirse de una túnica listada, que examino aquí. Varios estudios comparan el diseño sencillo de las listas que componen su túnica con la complejidad de los apéndices serpentinos y las cabezas trofeo que lleva este ser. Muchos de ellos concuerdan en que se trata de secuencias de muerte-vida centradas en el sacrificio y en la idea de que la cabeza trofeo es una semilla que brotará nuevamente con vida. Al aplicar a estas observaciones la semiosis procesual de Charles Peirce, propongo que las listas del cuerpo expresan los procesos anuales del crecimiento vegetativo de un ¿cuerpo¿ genérico ligado a un personaje ancestral y a ciertos instrumentos musicales que lo encarnan. Llego a esta propuesta al comparar la iconografía de este ser con ideas similares que hay entre las tejedoras y los músicos-guerreros actuales de los Andes surcentrales. Al aplicar a este análisis analogías etnográficas atemporales,
busco construir un contexto regional consistente dentro del cual se pueda reconsiderar el sistema visual nasca según criterios en común.
The Anthropomorphic Mythical Being, a personage that defines the textile and ceramic iconography of Nasca, tends to be dressed in a striped tunic, which I examine here. Various studies compare the simple striped design of this tunic with the complexity of the serpentine appendices and trophy heads that this being carries. Many of these studies agree that they deal with sequences of death and life, centred in sacrifice and the idea that the trophy head is a seed that will sprout again into life. By applying the processual semiotics of Charles Peirce to these observations, I propose that the tunic stripes express the annual processes of vegetative growth of a generic ¿body,¿ related to an ancestral personage and to certain musical instruments that this personage incarnates. I arrived at this proposal by comparing the iconography of this being with similar ideas among today¿s weavers and warrior-musicians in the south central Andes. In applying atemporal ethnographic data to this analysis, I seek to construct a consistent regional context, within which the visual system of Nasca can be reconsidered, according to common criteria.
The Anthropomorphic Mythical Being, a personage that defines the textile and ceramic iconography of Nasca, tends to be dressed in a striped tunic, which I examine here. Various studies compare the simple striped design of this tunic with the complexity of the serpentine appendices and trophy heads that this being carries. Many of these studies agree that they deal with sequences of death and life, centred in sacrifice and the idea that the trophy head is a seed that will sprout again into life. By applying the processual semiotics of Charles Peirce to these observations, I propose that the tunic stripes express the annual processes of vegetative growth of a generic ¿body,¿ related to an ancestral personage and to certain musical instruments that this personage incarnates. I arrived at this proposal by comparing the iconography of this being with similar ideas among today¿s weavers and warrior-musicians in the south central Andes. In applying atemporal ethnographic data to this analysis, I seek to construct a consistent regional context, within which the visual system of Nasca can be reconsidered, according to common criteria.