La Tora Mayora, la siembra del toro: Utawi fiesta aymara y la re-creación del ayllu
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El presente trabajo analiza la fiesta andina como proceso ritual resiliente de la comunidad aymara de Colquencha. La palabra "utawi" significa en aymara: nuestra casa, uno de los nombres de la fiesta de la "siembra del Toro". En este evento se representan las prácticas sociales y rituales que permiten a los jóvenes (kusillos) poner en escena, en una actuación teatralizada, las prácticas agropecuarias comunales. La fiesta como acto performativo muestra el cuidado y la crianza de la vida comunal, sus formas y los rituales de agradecimiento a la comunidad cósmica que lo permite. Los kusillos son la figura bisagra entre las prácticas y saberes ancestrales andinos y aquellos imbricados del mundo moderno actual que irrumpe en el imaginario del ayllu. Los kusillos, personajes liminales entre mundo ancestral y moderno, simbolizan el complejo y tenso solapamiento de las interrelaciones comunales actuales aymaras. El proceso resiliente gira entorno a la viuda: la Tora mayora, cuyos acompañantes dan y reciben y son convocados para la fiesta, denominada también: "preste".
This paper analyses the Andean festival as a resilient ritual process of the Aymara community of Colquencha. The word "utawi" means "our house" in Aymara, one of the names of the festival of "sowing the bull". In this event, the social and ritual practices that allow young people (kusillos) to put on stage, in a dramatized performance, the communal agricultural practices are represented. The festival as a performative act shows the care and upbringing of communal life, its forms and the rituals of gratitude to the cosmic community that allows it. The kusillos are the hinge figure between the ancestral Andean practices and knowledge and those intertwined with the current modern world that bursts into the imaginary of the ayllu. The kusillos, liminal characters between the ancestral and modern world, symbolize the complex and tense overlap of current Aymara communal interrelations. The resilient process revolves around the widow: the Tora mayora, whose companions give and receive and are summoned to the party, also called: "preste".
This paper analyses the Andean festival as a resilient ritual process of the Aymara community of Colquencha. The word "utawi" means "our house" in Aymara, one of the names of the festival of "sowing the bull". In this event, the social and ritual practices that allow young people (kusillos) to put on stage, in a dramatized performance, the communal agricultural practices are represented. The festival as a performative act shows the care and upbringing of communal life, its forms and the rituals of gratitude to the cosmic community that allows it. The kusillos are the hinge figure between the ancestral Andean practices and knowledge and those intertwined with the current modern world that bursts into the imaginary of the ayllu. The kusillos, liminal characters between the ancestral and modern world, symbolize the complex and tense overlap of current Aymara communal interrelations. The resilient process revolves around the widow: the Tora mayora, whose companions give and receive and are summoned to the party, also called: "preste".
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