Arte Precolombino - Escritura 1 (Las lecturas)

Williams, la menta en la caverna

Scientists from 1800s developing their ideas on evolution- cave discoveries had a big role in that. A lot of them applied Western thought to bring meaning to the art. Why do humans make art, and how do we interpret it?

Grebe, Etnoestética: Un Replanteamiento Antropológico del Arte

Western thought is too narrow to be applied to a universal understanding of art. Often strips art works of their context and separates art artifacts from everyday life. Etnoestetica studies art within its own context of creation, rather than imposing external standards.

Baudrillard, La transparencia del mal: Ensayo sobre los fenómenos extremos

Due to the loss of categories and distinctions, we have lost a lot of meaning in life. Because everything is political, nothing is. An overwhelming conglomoration of mixed confusion. Talks a lot about transaesthetics, transpolitics, etc.

Todorov, el problema del otro

Colombus applied his own lens to indigenous American people, having no interest in learning their language or customs. A failure to acknowledge the Other as different and autonomous, instead trying to fit them into the mold of Western standards and assumptions.

Clarkson & Briones, GEOGLIFOS, SENDEROS y ETNOARQUEOLOGÍA DE CARAVANAS EN el DESIERTO CHILENO.

Drawing connections between geoglifos y los senderos de transitos de las caravanas in the andean desert. The majority of the images are of camels. These caravan routes connected and built relationships between different cultures. The knowledge of the routes was passed down from generation to generation.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Aspectos chamanisticos y neurofisologicos del arte indigena

Hallugenogens aggravates the presence of fosfenos, and there are indigenous communities that have adopted these geometric shapes into their customs and way of life. The symbols have become abbreviations of complex cultural knowledge, condensing large amounts of information. A basis of communication that is vital for cultural exchange. Rock art plays a vital role in this communication.

Clottes & Lewis-Williams, Los chamanes de la prehistoria

Connecting cave art from the Paleolithic era to shamanistic rituals. Cave art as deeply tied to shamanistic practices. Served as both communal spaces to host gatherings and ceremonies (larger rooms, salas de arte) and also individual journeys (smaller, more narrow corridors). Some of these rooms are deep underground, suggesting a degree of social separation, with shamans holding elite positions in these spaces.