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Luis Flores et al., « WHEN THE MYTH BECOMES STONE: MEMORIES ABOUT PUKARA STELES IN THE NORTH OF TITICACA, PERU », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.4067/s0717-73562017005000011
This article describes a myth widely known throughout the Central Andes and documented by the authors in the Ramis Valley of northern Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru. The myth tells of the destruction of a people and how the few who tried to flee were transformed into stone. This story relates to the materiality of Pukara society and offers anthropological, political and ecological explanations for Pukara material, environment and of the historical future that even transcends them. From a hermeneutic reading of the text, we propose that the story is a discourse of power and materialization –petrification– of how modern and ancient people explain their origins, their discourse of power and order the landscape throughout the history of the plateau.