Aportaciones del legado precolombino a la construcción de paisajes andinos

Abstract

The pre-Columbian Andean societies enjoyed a cultural landscape, based substantially on a monistic conception of the mystical relationship between man and nature community. Such an approach clarifies and enriches the theory of some landscape epistemologists as Berque or Conan. In this context, this thesis proposes that the most rigorous way to understand the Andean landscape is in a hermeneutic reading of them, which forces see them as texts to be deciphered using descriptions, analogies, metaphors, legends or myths, mediators of a complex dialogue with cultures recently approved. Without falling down in the determinism, there is understood that the nature influences in these cultures and to its landscapes at the same time that these cultures act to turn out limitations into resources, but always from a reverential respect to the natural order. There is a need to adapt to what already exists, where everything has its site and they complement. The mixture defined these landscapes, emerging and scale so excited (in situ) and at the level of literary and pictorial representations (in visu).