At present, the relationship between scriptural sources and visual communication systems of pre-Hispanic origin, which continued to function during the colonial period in the Andean south in general and in the former province of Tarapacá in specific, is problematized. This problematization is based on the exhibition of diverse colonial rock evidence identified in the study area and the comparative analysis of these sources with the accumulation of ethnohistorical knowledge produced in the last 4 decades on the spatial and political administrative organization of the institution’s imperials in Tarapacá. It is considered that knowledge about old communication systems and their relationship with what ethnohistorical knowledge has produced so far allows to complex and enrich knowledge of the prehispanic and colonial past of the indigenous populations of the Andes and the Great North.
Keywords:
rock art, ethnohistory, atacama, desert, indigenous discourses, evangelization
González, B. (2019). Contribution of the study of visual communication Andean colonial systems into the knowledge of the past of indigenous populations in South Andes. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (40), 271–304. Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/55848
