Ritos fúnebres en la comunidad Dacte del cantón Sígsig: "Análisis simbólico y ritual del huairo"

Abstract

In this work we performed a semiotic analysis of the ritual of "Huairo", in the that we guided by the theoretical model of the "Analysis of texts" of Louis Panier (2013), who distinguishes a narrative level and another discursive, that intertwine in on a shaft limited or interpretative where different meanings and functions of rituals and myths are read. In the narrative level is presented in a descriptive way, the structure and external elements of the rite, How do you play it? When are play? Why do you play it? And the main features that this presents with three other key elements for its development - entierro, Cuadro de Almas and Pishca -. Moreover, in the discursive level some of the main meanings of this game, we analyze the symbols found in the Huairo game, from a theoretical point of view and from the worldview of the people of the community; in this way weave these two planes in an axis called limited, in which manifest, the functionality of the ritual of Huairo in society where it develops and this, with the axes social of the contemporary,connecting such the signs and senses conceived as a pre-modern practice, but as embodied differently with current uses and cultural senses of the actuality.