El juego del pucara en la comunidad rural de Gullanzhapa de la parroquia Tarqui entre 1950 y 1970

Abstract

The Pucara game is a ritual practice of Andean origin with similar expressions and parallels to the violent games recorded in countries such as Peru and Bolivia. In the southern part of Ecuador, this ritual celebration has been maintained in different rural locations in Azuay despite social changes and cultural and religious syncretism. In the confrontation, different material components such as clothing, commensality, and immaterial components such as the imaginary and the mythical origin of the game, are manifested. Therefore, this research aims to describe the characteristics in the practice of Pucara in the rural community of Gullanzhapa considering its current discontinuity and prohibition (2022). This research corresponds to a qualitative methodological analysis typical of the humanistic social sciences through which it seeks to describe the elements present in the Pucara game in the Gullanzhapa community between the years of 1950 and 1970. Through interviews and informal dialogues, the memory, meanings and interpretations of those who play the game during the second half of the 20th century are recorded. It should be noted that the Pucara, due to modernization and the introduction of new technological elements and religious ideas, has acquired reinterpretations that must be described or recorded in order to understand its transformations and connotations currently.