Bodies in contrast: Reflections on the treatment of the dead in two burials of 3,000 years BP (Cajon Valley, Northwest Argentina)

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Two funerary contexts dated to 3.000 years B.P. from the southern Cajón Valley showed interesting contrasts as far as the treatment, disposition and association of the bodies with diverse objects is concerned. The first one is a multiple internment where several bodies were laid out mixed with one a...

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Autor principal: Cortés, Leticia Inés
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología 2010
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contextos funerarios
cuerpos
gestos
3.000 años A.P.
Noroeste argentino
funerary contexts
bodies
gestures
3000 years BP
Northwestern Argentina
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/5443
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spelling I10-R10-article-54432021-06-18T17:45:56Z Bodies in contrast: Reflections on the treatment of the dead in two burials of 3,000 years BP (Cajon Valley, Northwest Argentina) Cuerpos en contraste: reflexiones sobre el tratamiento de los difuntos en dos entierros de 3.000 años A.P. (Valle del Cajón, Noroeste argentino) Cortés, Leticia Inés contextos funerarios cuerpos gestos 3.000 años A.P. Noroeste argentino funerary contexts bodies gestures 3000 years BP Northwestern Argentina Two funerary contexts dated to 3.000 years B.P. from the southern Cajón Valley showed interesting contrasts as far as the treatment, disposition and association of the bodies with diverse objects is concerned. The first one is a multiple internment where several bodies were laid out mixed with one another without any anatomical articulation. These were associated to an anthropomorphic copper mask. The second one is the inhumation of a child in an extended position associated to a lithic bead and a copper pendant. Both contexts were set adjacent to each other though separated by symmetrical and opposed stone structures. Along with some perspectives suggested by the anthropology of the body and studies of materiality, I explore a first interpretation in which bodies are considered the axis of the analysis. The way bodies were treated –the obliteration or conservation of their anatomy, their association with objects that could refer to a human collective in contrast to those of personal use and demarcation, as well as the inverse disposition of the structures that contained them, allows to think that notions of symmetry and opposition would have been implied in the treatment of the deceased by those who inhabited the valley three thousand years ago. Dos contextos funerarios datados en 3.000 años A.P. procedentes del sur del valle del Cajón mostraron interesantes contrastes en cuanto al tratamiento, disposición y asociación de los cuerpos con diversos objetos. El primero es un entierro múltiple donde los cuerpos, entremezclados unos con otros y sin articulación entre sus partes anatómicas se hallaron asociados a una máscara antropomorfa de cobre. El segundo caso se trata de la inhumación de un niño en posición extendida junto a una cuenta de collar lítica y un pendiente de cobre. Los entierros se emplazaban adyacentes uno del otro aunque separados por estructuras de piedra simétricas y opuestas entre sí. De acuerdo a lineamientos sugeridos por la antropología del cuerpo y los estudios sobre materialidad, se explora una primera interpretación donde los cuerpos constituyen el eje de análisis. El modo en que estos fueron tratados –su individualidad anatómica obliterada o conservada, su asociación con objetos que podrían referir a un colectivo humano, en contraste con otros de uso y demarcación personal, así como la disposición inversa de las estructuras que los contienen– permite proponer que nociones de simetría y oposición habrían estado implicadas en el tratamiento de los difuntos por las poblaciones que habitaron el valle tres mil años atrás. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología 2010-12-26 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer reviewed article Artículo revisado por pares Artigo revisado por pares application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/5443 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol 3 (2010) NÚMERO 1; 5-12 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol 3 (2010) NÚMERO 1; 5-12 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol 3 (2010) NÚMERO 1; 5-12 1852-4826 1852-060X 10.31048/1852.4826.v3.n1 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/5443/5889 Derechos de autor 2010 Leticia Inés Cortés
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topic contextos funerarios
cuerpos
gestos
3.000 años A.P.
Noroeste argentino
funerary contexts
bodies
gestures
3000 years BP
Northwestern Argentina
spellingShingle contextos funerarios
cuerpos
gestos
3.000 años A.P.
Noroeste argentino
funerary contexts
bodies
gestures
3000 years BP
Northwestern Argentina
Cortés, Leticia Inés
Bodies in contrast: Reflections on the treatment of the dead in two burials of 3,000 years BP (Cajon Valley, Northwest Argentina)
topic_facet contextos funerarios
cuerpos
gestos
3.000 años A.P.
Noroeste argentino
funerary contexts
bodies
gestures
3000 years BP
Northwestern Argentina
author Cortés, Leticia Inés
author_facet Cortés, Leticia Inés
author_sort Cortés, Leticia Inés
title Bodies in contrast: Reflections on the treatment of the dead in two burials of 3,000 years BP (Cajon Valley, Northwest Argentina)
title_short Bodies in contrast: Reflections on the treatment of the dead in two burials of 3,000 years BP (Cajon Valley, Northwest Argentina)
title_full Bodies in contrast: Reflections on the treatment of the dead in two burials of 3,000 years BP (Cajon Valley, Northwest Argentina)
title_fullStr Bodies in contrast: Reflections on the treatment of the dead in two burials of 3,000 years BP (Cajon Valley, Northwest Argentina)
title_full_unstemmed Bodies in contrast: Reflections on the treatment of the dead in two burials of 3,000 years BP (Cajon Valley, Northwest Argentina)
title_sort bodies in contrast: reflections on the treatment of the dead in two burials of 3,000 years bp (cajon valley, northwest argentina)
description Two funerary contexts dated to 3.000 years B.P. from the southern Cajón Valley showed interesting contrasts as far as the treatment, disposition and association of the bodies with diverse objects is concerned. The first one is a multiple internment where several bodies were laid out mixed with one another without any anatomical articulation. These were associated to an anthropomorphic copper mask. The second one is the inhumation of a child in an extended position associated to a lithic bead and a copper pendant. Both contexts were set adjacent to each other though separated by symmetrical and opposed stone structures. Along with some perspectives suggested by the anthropology of the body and studies of materiality, I explore a first interpretation in which bodies are considered the axis of the analysis. The way bodies were treated –the obliteration or conservation of their anatomy, their association with objects that could refer to a human collective in contrast to those of personal use and demarcation, as well as the inverse disposition of the structures that contained them, allows to think that notions of symmetry and opposition would have been implied in the treatment of the deceased by those who inhabited the valley three thousand years ago.
publisher Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
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url https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/5443
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