Paper short abstract:

Starting from an analysis of kinship in a translocal Aymara community in northern Chile, I seek to reflect on the idea of relationality proposed by Ingold to understand how members of the community learn attentionally in ritual-festive contexts

Paper long abstract:

From an ethnographic study in an Aymara community in northern Chile (Socoroma), whose focus of interest is kinship, I analyzed the relational practices displayed in ritual-festive contexts, since through them can be highlighted in some ways how the people learn to relate attentionally. For this purpose, two moments of the annual ritual cycle are considered: Carnival (Carnaval) and May Crosses (Cruces de Mayo). In the first instance, the interest is in the relationships that arise from the centrality of the figure of the "carnavalón", a non-human character who returns to the village every year for this festivity and becomes human through its incorporation into kinship relations. In the second, the focus is the relationships emerged around the community crosses, sacred entities with family ascriptions, which are lowered from the mountains of the communal territory and then uploaded to them after a series of ceremonial activities in the village. Both festivities are explored from personal and community dimensions, in the relationship established by individuals with these figures, as well as in the instances of the festivities that put into practice different types of relationships that intertwine the members and family's lives of the community. Thus, starting from kinship, I intend to broaden the gaze to reflect on the idea of relationality and how education is being achieved attentionally at certain ritual-festive moments in an Aymara community