PERFORMATIVE IDENTITIES IN THE CONDORHUASI BODIES-SUPPORTS. THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL FOR THE ICONOGRAPHIC STUDY FROM GENDER, FEMINIST AND QUEERS PERSPECTIVES

This work exposes a theoretical-methodological proposal in gender, feminist, and queer keys, to address an iconographic study of anthropomorphic vessels. The pieces assigned to the Condorhuasi style, which make up the collections of the Institute of Archaeology and Museum of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Miguel Lillo Institute -IAM (FCNeIML-UNT)-, are taken as a case study. The proposed methodology is aimed at identifying, differentiating, and recording the presence/absence of sexual phenotypic indicators, as well as bodily acts and the identity elements associated with them. Among the specimens studied, masculine, feminine and feminized figures were identified, which were conceived, in turn, as supporting bodies that carry individual and group identities and, in some cases, combined identities. Likewise, this study also includes an instance of comparison between the iconic components and/or referents registered in the supporting bodies, with similar objects, registered in archaeological and ethnographic contexts of the Argentine Northwest.