Lengua kichwa e indumentaria en el conflicto generacional en la nación Panzaleo: Una propuesta visual sobre la tensión cultural contemporánea

Abstract

In this research project we address the contemporary cultural transformations that the Panzaleo nation is going through, focusing on the intergenerational tensions linked to the use of the kichwa language and traditional clothing. Thus, using a contemporary photographic visual approach and ethnographic tools, we seek to represent the processes of identity change from a perspective that articulates the symbolic and the everyday. We aim to understand how variations in clothing affect the construction and perception of identity within the community, as well as to analyze the role played by the kichwa language in the configuration and transmission of cultural practices and their intergenerational passage. This study privileges the critical observation of the symbolic disputes that emerge between generations, proposing an aesthetic and reflective look on the ways in which cultural elements are negotiated, reconfigured and re-signified or replaced in the current context. The visual proposal is thus constituted as a tool of registration and representation that makes visible these cultural tensions that define the contemporary Panzaleo identity construction.