Mate burilado y etnonarrativa del conflicto armado interno en los andes: presencia militar y subversiva en la comunidad de Cochas.

Abstract

The motivations of this article are based on arguing how a set of artistic-traditional practices design ethnonarratives about historical memory. Chipping skills that become exclusive to Andean rural areas, such as the peasant community of Cochas, Huancayo. Unveiling from that stylistic exclusivity a narrative of events relevant to the community, such as the internal armed conflict.

The mate chippers, in the Mantaro valley, made records of relevant historical events, such as the internal armed conflict (1980-2000), affecting the military and subversive presence in the peasant community of Cochas (Huancayo); constituting the carved mate as an object of memory, representing a narrative from an ethnic perspective.

The present investigation proposes, from an ethnohistorical approach, to validate the graphic ethnonarrative of the carved mate as a counter-hegemonic document for the construction of national memory, legitimized from the local. The agreed methodology was bibliographic review and field ethnography.

The ethno-narrative of the events that occurred in the context of political violence – stylized by the mate chippers of the Cochas community – are evidenced in the symbolic warp and graphic narrative of Marcelino Poma García. Ethnic narrative of the internal armed conflict in the Andes, whose social significance led the artist to his incrimination by apology.