Hebras y nudos del marico: la vida social del tejido de algodón en el piedemonte andino-amazónico
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Resultado de dos temporadas de trabajo de campo antropológico (2015 y 2019) y de la revisión exhaustiva de fuentes secundarias, el presente artículo propone una pesquisa sobre la etnohistoria del algodón, con especial atención en su relación con la vestimenta indígena en el piedemonte andino-amazónico, y, a través de la etnografía en territorio tacana (provincia Iturralde, departamento de La Paz), explorar en las técnicas, sustancias y materiales que constituyen al marico. Con todo, la apuesta es por una apertura ontológica que, al estar centrada en la vida social de las cosas, no se orienta simplemente hacia el reconocimiento del tejido de algodón como sujeto, menos aún como individualidad, sino a evidenciar los diferentes mundos o entramados multiespecie que se atan y desatan como hebras de un nudo en constante gestación.
Result of two seasons of anthropological fieldwork (2015 and 2019) and an exhaustive review of secondary sources, this article proposes a research on the ethnohistory of cotton, with special attention to its relationship with indigenous clothing in the Andean-Amazonian Piedmont, and, through ethnography in Tacana territory (Iturralde Province, Department of La Paz), explore the techniques, substances and materials that make up the marico. However, the bet is for an ontological opening that, being centered on the social life of things, is not oriented simply towards the recognition of cotton weave as a subject, even less as an individuality, but to highlight the different worlds or meshworks multispecies that are tied and untied like threads of a knot in constant gestation.
Result of two seasons of anthropological fieldwork (2015 and 2019) and an exhaustive review of secondary sources, this article proposes a research on the ethnohistory of cotton, with special attention to its relationship with indigenous clothing in the Andean-Amazonian Piedmont, and, through ethnography in Tacana territory (Iturralde Province, Department of La Paz), explore the techniques, substances and materials that make up the marico. However, the bet is for an ontological opening that, being centered on the social life of things, is not oriented simply towards the recognition of cotton weave as a subject, even less as an individuality, but to highlight the different worlds or meshworks multispecies that are tied and untied like threads of a knot in constant gestation.
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Vol. 24, No. 45