Huaylars of the towns of the valley of the Hatun Mayu

Abstract

Part of the culture of the Huanca people are the 19 lavish festivities of Andean substrate and Hispanic complement that take place throughout the year. They, with their calendar, clarify with more than 36 testimonial dances the popular spirit since they synthesize a tacit chronicle of their cultural performance in their millenary history. The rural “dance of land” of the Wanka, the Huaylars stands out for being linked to the agricultural ritual, specifically the harvest, but apparently formerly, rather to the fallow, that is to say, to the first rains and whose lyrical expression has a meaning of exaltation of youthful strength and grace.
In a recount of their described versions, the critical contribution of the author reveals the autochthonous elements, which are the existential expressions preserved by the people while they were able to preserve their autonomy of work habits, and their analysis claims them by discriminating them from those uses that turn out to be Hispanic introductions. It is considered, thus, a survival insofar as it involves the way of feeling.