Huacos invisibles. Las metamorfosis de los artefactos prehispánicos en la sierra septentrional del Perú

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore biographies of huacos unearthed by huaqueros through the huaquería ritual, practiced in the Northern Andes of Peru. An analytical process of ritual, comercial and museum biographical reconstruction will be applied in order to investigate three aspects of these objects. First, the role of huacos inside the communities in which they circulate; second, the thought system activated by these objects in their interactions with people from these communities.