El tejido del cosmos. Tiempo, espacio y arte de la hamaca entre los ette (chimila)
The aim of this article is to put forward a model of the Ette universe, a Chibchan speaking people of northern Colombia, through an analysis of the relationship between cosmological principles and material culture. The way in which time and space are experienced at a cosmological level is compared w...
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| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/13726 |
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| Summary: | The aim of this article is to put forward a model of the Ette universe, a Chibchan speaking people of northern Colombia, through an analysis of the relationship between cosmological principles and material culture. The way in which time and space are experienced at a cosmological level is compared with conceptions of the hammock and the way it is used. We show how this object materializes a complex set of cosmic notions: from the concave, bipolar and instable shape of the earth, to the tripartition between a human present located in the middle, an animal past placed below and, finally, a divine future situated above. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |