A subject you have enjoyed studying this year

During this semester I have fallen totally in love with the course "Cazadores recolectores", especially the subject associated with shamanism and all the artistic expressions that these groups develop around their religiosity.

Mainly, our professor Diego Artigas, took us into this research through various mandatory texts of the field, being my favorite "Chamanismo en la prehistora" by Clottes and Lewis-Williams. For personal research, around his relationship with art, one of my favorite texts has been “El arte corporal Selk’nam y su carácter iconográfico" by Flores and Correa, which we used with my partner in an activity evaluated.

Both texts delve into both body art and cave art (of caves) associating it with their cosmology and mythology. How they represent their connection and communication, generated through various initiation rites and rituals, with the spirits of their ancestors, representing them in trace on cave walls or personifying their spiritual figures through body art and dances. The theme of symbolism projected by this art and the cosmic world that each cultural group perceives is a vast and very interesting world, bringing together mythology and art, subjects that I am too passionate about, in a composite whole.