José María Arguedas, forerunner of the Andean culture, current and essential in Peruvian society and Lucy Núñez Rebaza, a brief history of the research on “The Dance of the Scissors” (Los Dansaq)

Abstract

Studying the Andean world in its formation, highlights the historical relationship between nativist movements of the resistance to the missionary evangelization of the Castilian invaders in the sixteenth century with the artistic forms of dance and music generated syncretically upon assimilation, as a cultural result of such secular conflict the same autochthonous religious forms that the Catholic dogmatists sought to extirpate from their own country and the elements introduced by the invaders. These processes are summarized in the movement called Taki Onqoy, whose characteristics were imprinted in the gestures of the Dance of the Scissors and, in turn, these generated musical forms, with special influence of the religious fact (the forms of the telluric cult) constituted for the persecution suffered by the religion of the apus. The author recovers in the testimonies of her current participants, in detailed interviews both musicians and performers, how to recreate and preserve the Dance as a cultural treasure.