Una experiencia de investigación audiovisual: los cantos ceremoniales de los Concheros.

This study – a product of the project “Water and Time Temples”– is an audio-visual research experience which allowed the capture and subsequent analysis and diffusion of the rituals of pre-Columbus origins regarding water cycles. It specifically refers to those rituals practiced by the so-called “graniceros” and “tiemperos” in Amecameca, Atlautla and San Pedro Nexapa, México, by means of the study of “Concheros”, those who execute the dance known as “Aztec Dance”, during which they sing and dance ceremonial dances and songs which are nahua solar rites. On the field participative observation methods were used, for which we counted on the advice of Mr. Gabriel Hernández Ramos, Conchero Captain of La Mesa de Sacromonte in Amecameca. The studied rituals reflect the survival of these ancestral traditions in those towns –although with some unsubstantial changes in the original ways– and keep the solar rites alive amongst their people.

Palabras Claves
concheros
náhuatl
song
dance
poetry
Mexico.
Autor
Ivork Cordido Demartini. Cineasta, Profesor Titular de la Escuela de Letras de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela. Investigador de la Unidad de Estudios de Lenguas y Culturas de la Cuenca del lago de Maracaibo de la misma institución.
Autor
Nilda Bermúdez Bríñez. Comunicadora Social, magister en Historia, Doctora en Ciencias Humanas. Docente e investigadora de la Universidad del Zulia. Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño.
Recibido
Aceptado
Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual - número 22 - Santiago, diciembre 2013 - 191/207 pp.- ISSN 0718-876x. Rev. chil. antropol. vis.