Between history, myth and ritual: notes on chamacoco art (Alto Paraguay)
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.6891Keywords:
History, Myth, Ritual, Corporal ornamentation, Figurative painting, Ethnic art, ChamacocoAbstract
Abstract. The work constitutes a boarding to the relations between the myth, history and the ritual between chamacoco o ishir of the Paraguay Chaco. It develops the main elements that characterized to the traditional abstract art, specially in the scope of the traditional ritual corporal ornamentation and shows how the emergency of the figurative art in the present painting, registers in the attempt of vehiculizar the symbolic principles of a traditional culture whose material requirements —like the territory and the traditional life— have disappeared.
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