Documental sobre la innovación de la vestimenta de los pueblos Otavalo y Puruhá.

Abstract

This audiovisual work aims to visualize the aesthetic innovations of the Andean clothing and how it influences the conception of identity in the peoples of Otavalo and Puruhá, as an element of resistance to a colonial and mestizo process. It´s important to note that clothing has been adapted to different contexts and societies, from the whitening of identity to rediscovered, rewritten. It is also important to highlight the process of colonial resistance that, through social struggles, maintaining the oral transmission of knowledge without falling into the essentialism of culture, but with significant generational changes, have achieved Visualize your rights. Audiovisual work in its content shows all the symbolic value of the cultures of Otavalo and Puruhá by means of clothing, colors, embroideries and iconography, and everything related to their cultural identity, their worldview that is manifested in clothing Traditional. With the ethnographic technique and by means of the documentary video that is an audiovisual work, that by means of the observation a concrete reality is documented and together with the interviews to the participants, it is compiled the information to carry out the present Work.