Rock Art and Ritual Routes: Visual Complexity in Cerro de la Nariz, Wakiri kitenie (Potosino Highlands, Mexico)
Author(s): Olivia Kindl; Alma Noemi Vega Barbosa
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Polychromy, Multimediality, and Visual Complexity in Mesoamerican Art" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Some features of a rocky site in the Potosino semi-desert of north-central Mexico will be presented, where an ancient rock world and ritual expressions of contemporary ethnic groups, in particular the Wixarika (Huichol Indians), coincide. For the latter, the site is an important step in their ritual journey to Wirikuta, a sacred territory where they regularly make pilgrimages and place offerings that bear witness to their extensive and complex cosmology. We will explore the spatial relationships between these votive objects and some paintings found in the rock shelters of this site, contrasting them with the exegesis formulated in this regard from various points of view, to reflect on temporal and visual horizons in which gaze encounters are produced with centuries of distance. From this case study, bases will be laid to develop an interdisciplinary dialogue between anthropology of art, archaeology, and philosophy.
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Rock Art and Ritual Routes: Visual Complexity in Cerro de la Nariz, Wakiri kitenie (Potosino Highlands, Mexico). Olivia Kindl, Alma Noemi Vega Barbosa. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467260)
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min long: -109.094; min lat: 22.553 ; max long: -96.57; max lat: 26.785 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 33262