Fotografía participativa: expresiones de identidad cultural y textil ancestral con artesanas de Sicuani y Pitumarca
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2024-03-05
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
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En medio de la crisis sanitaria, social y económica ocasionada por la pandemia de la COVID-19,
dos asociaciones de artesanas pertenecientes a las provincias de Sicuani y Pitumarca, situadas
al sur del Cusco, participaron durante el 2020 de un taller de fotografía participativa gracias a un
micro financiamiento otorgado por el Ministerio de Cultura. La presente investigación tiene por
objetivo conocer cómo este taller se convirtió en un espacio de reflexión sobre la identidad cultural
del grupo y el textil ancestral como práctica de patrimonio inmaterial. Desde la visualidad y el
encuentro, este proceso también permitió expresar las dificultades enfrentadas por las tejedoras
a raíz de la pandemia, como la importancia del tejido como patrimonio vivo de la nación.
El estudio de origen cualitativo fue realizado recogiendo las principales percepciones de las
artesanas protagonistas participantes de los talleres, así como los facilitadores de este proceso.
Tomando en cuenta el taller, los testimonios de las participantes de su experiencia vinculada a
su identidad cultural y al textil ancestral y a las fotografías resultantes se evidencia la importancia
de la comunicación y la metodología fotográfica participativa en contextos andinos y desafiantes.
Además, se reconoce la importancia de la asociatividad y la agencia femenina en la preservación
de un elemento del patrimonio inmaterial del país: el textil ancestral.
In the midst of the health, social and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, two associations of female artisans belonging to the provinces of Sicuani and Pitumarca, located in the south of Cusco, participated during 2020 in a participatory photography workshop thanks to a micro-financing granted by the Ministry of Culture. The present research aims to know how this workshop became a space for reflection on the cultural identity of the group and the ancestral textile as a practice of intangible heritage. From the visuality and the encounter, this process also allowed expressing the difficulties faced by the weavers as a result of the pandemic, as well as the importance of weaving as a living national heritage. The qualitative study was conducted by collecting the main perceptions of the artisans who participated in the workshop, as well as the facilitators of this process. Taking into account the workshop, the participants' testimonies of their experience linked to their cultural identity and ancestral textile and the resulting photographs, the importance of communication and participatory photographic methodology in Andean and challenging contexts is evidenced. In addition, the importance of associativity and female agency in the preservation of an element of the country's intangible heritage is recognized: the ancestral textile.
In the midst of the health, social and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, two associations of female artisans belonging to the provinces of Sicuani and Pitumarca, located in the south of Cusco, participated during 2020 in a participatory photography workshop thanks to a micro-financing granted by the Ministry of Culture. The present research aims to know how this workshop became a space for reflection on the cultural identity of the group and the ancestral textile as a practice of intangible heritage. From the visuality and the encounter, this process also allowed expressing the difficulties faced by the weavers as a result of the pandemic, as well as the importance of weaving as a living national heritage. The qualitative study was conducted by collecting the main perceptions of the artisans who participated in the workshop, as well as the facilitators of this process. Taking into account the workshop, the participants' testimonies of their experience linked to their cultural identity and ancestral textile and the resulting photographs, the importance of communication and participatory photographic methodology in Andean and challenging contexts is evidenced. In addition, the importance of associativity and female agency in the preservation of an element of the country's intangible heritage is recognized: the ancestral textile.
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Fotografía, Identidad cultural--Perú, Mujeres campesinas--Trabajadores textiles
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