TY - JOUR
KW - Aymara
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - Pachjiri
KW - Revalorization
KW - Yatiri
AU - G. Fernández Juárez
AB - This article analyzes the unwanted consequences of the potential ‘revalorization’ and touristic exploitation of a hill in the Bolivian Titicaca highlands which is endowed with sacred significance. For local Aymara communities, Pachjiri hill is a full-scale sanctuary whose ceremonial altars have a role not only in the formation of yatiris (ritual specialists), but also in healing, plant growing, and cattle breeding. As argued in the article, proposals to implement uncontrolled tourist access will bring destruction to this intangible cultural heritage, which has so much relevance and prestige for neighbouring Aymara communities. The question that the article tries to answer is: till what extent should the commercial promotion of intangible cultural heritage (advocated by unesco) be put before this heritage’s preservation?.
BT - Revista de Antropologia Social
DO - 10.5209/rev_RASO.2014.v23.46358
LA - Spanish
N1 - Publisher: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
N2 - This article analyzes the unwanted consequences of the potential ‘revalorization’ and touristic exploitation of a hill in the Bolivian Titicaca highlands which is endowed with sacred significance. For local Aymara communities, Pachjiri hill is a full-scale sanctuary whose ceremonial altars have a role not only in the formation of yatiris (ritual specialists), but also in healing, plant growing, and cattle breeding. As argued in the article, proposals to implement uncontrolled tourist access will bring destruction to this intangible cultural heritage, which has so much relevance and prestige for neighbouring Aymara communities. The question that the article tries to answer is: till what extent should the commercial promotion of intangible cultural heritage (advocated by unesco) be put before this heritage’s preservation?.
PY - 2014
SP - 137
EP - 156
T2 - Revista de Antropologia Social
TI - “A threatened sanctuary”: Pachjiri hill (bolivia) and its preservation as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908505535&doi=10.5209%2frev_RASO.2014.v23.46358&partnerID=40&md5=965434df059be0389eff02e807831b7c
VL - 23
SN - 1131558X (ISSN)
ER -