Social structure of actors, in the form of a network, made up of people (or organisations and other entities) which are connected with one or various types of relationship, such as friendship, kinship, common interests, economic exchange, sexual relationships, or that share beliefs, knowledge or prestige.
Fixed material components of the object of conservation. These might be walls, structures, stretches of road, features etc. These referents have attributes that can be valued in a differential way by the different collectives connected to the units.
All the social practices of cultural reflection by individuals and different groups of social actors and institutions at different levels and at different periods of history. These cultural reflections are centred above all on the societal values that are manifest in the textile in different historical contexts and periods. Some ways of expressing these reflections are journalistic essays, weekly magazines, occasional publication of academic books and articles on Andean textiles, catalogues of textile exhibitions written by curators in museums, NGOs or base organisations, buyers and sellers of textiles in fairs, shops or markets, and in the interventions of intermediaries or those who look at these reflections.
Lesser subnational territorial unit into which a country is divided with geographic characteristics and socio-economic and cultural interests similar to others.
Period when modern national States are established after wars of independence produce social and political reforms that break the previous colonial order.
The ensemble of efforts to rescue traditions associated with the chain of regional textile production, and that pay attention to control over territorial management, grazing and herding practices and animal enclosure to prevent over-grazing, practices of animal rearing to prevent high mortality amongst the young, the finest instruments of the past, natural dyes of the region and methods of cultivating plants to avoid their over-use, and finally the historical repertoire of garments in use in society.
The set of rituals in the agricultural year in which textiles are used or worn for different purposes. These rituals are organised by the productive cycle of crops, their sowing, earthing up, sprouting and harvesting, the celebration of first fruits, the storing of products in storehouses, etc.
Set of rituals in the herding year in which textiles are used or worn for different purposes. These rituals are directed towards the reproductive cycle and well-being of the herds, their organisation by sex, the separation of the males and their castration, the celebration of the fertility of the females and the birth of a new generation of young, the market for the newly born animals, etc.
Hand instrument used for spinning, of variable length and diameter, made out of a thin rod, generally of wood, to which fixed to a disc of pottery, stone, wood, or other material. Turning it produces the counterweight and tension needed to create revolutions with which the fibre can be twisted and cover the rod. These instruments come in larger versions that are used to double or plait the yarn that is the product of spinning.
Spindle used to turn the fibre of fleeces into yarn meant for the warp and weft of the textile. The spindle in this spinning process is usually smaller than the spindle for twisting or doubling the thread.
