Capillas familiares en estancias de pastoreo en la Puna de Atacama, Lipez y Tarapaca. Problemas y perspectivas para aportar a un estudio interdisciplinario de recintos religiosos

Abstract

This work seeks to elaborate on the figure of family chapels in the Central South Andean area, as enclosures built in domestic spaces of family units that were far from the centers of colonial power. Its material, devotional and ideational referents are exposed, in a heterogeneous and multidisciplinary way, in specific areas of the Puna de Atacama, the high plateau of Lípez and the high ravine of Tarapacá. It is, therefore, a first approach to these religious architectures from a relational and multitemporal point of view, addressing particular contexts and links with other materialities, this approach exposes religious expressions that have been assembling different records and meanings, according to their own socio-historical trajectories and their respective responses to the new modernities. In general terms, this exploratory and reflective exercise seeks to comprehend how Andean practices and narratives are not sustained through essentialism and immobilism, on the contrary, they are in permanent reconfiguration, showing flexibility and creativity in the face of changing situations.