Chiqui: etnohistoria de una creencia andina en el noroeste argentino

Abstract

Chiqui was the bad luck; the belief and the ceremonies related to its propitiation were recorded in the Argentine northwestern region by the mid 19th Century and at the beginning of the 20th Century. This essay shows the different dangerous and unlucky situations, chiqui; the ways to obtain the benefits of the bad luck; its representations, the spreading of this belief throughout different landscapes and its Andean deeprootedness, presumably related to weather phenomena such as “El Niño”.

Keywords

• ethnohistory
• Northwest Argentine
• capacocha
• nicknames
• volcanoes
• parrots