PENSADO A TRAVÉS DE LA CESTERÍA SERI: PERMANENCIA, INNOVACIÓN Y MEMORIA
Journal Title: Itinerarios. Revista de estudios lingüísticos, literarios, históricos y antropológicos - Year 2016, Vol 24, Issue
Abstract
The permanence of Seri basketry has been explained by twentieth-century anthropologists as a result of its introduction into the local, regional, national and international markets and by the link of this activity to pre-Hispanic symbolism. As a result of thinking through things (Henare, Holbraad y Wastell 2007), a methodology on which this paper is based, the Seri baskets dictated the premises of their own analysis. In this paper I describe the Seri basketry manufacturing processes and techniques in order to highlight two mechanisms: the permanence of a production method (collecting, burning and peeling of the torote branches), and the technical variation that generates distinction in individual production (processing fibers, dyeing, weaving and creating designs). In both these mechanisms exogenous and endogenous elements and motifs are integrated in the baskets’ shapes and designs, thus producing innovation which is experienced by Seri women in El Desemboque, Sonora, as a process of personal creativity. Permanence and technical variation are connected through a female family memory, an expression of the fact that chang is a condition for continuity. Based on the description of the Seri basketry manufacturing processes and techniques, this article aims to examine the relevance of the anthropological question of permanence and its premises (cf. Carneiro da Cunha 2009) to the organization of Seri knowledge and practice.
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María Isabel Martínez Ramírez
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