Estudio comparativo del sistema vestimentario de la comunidad Cacha entre el periodo 1979 – 2019

Abstract

The semiotic analysis of the clothing of the Cacha indigenous people is a project based on research on related issues of cultural identity. There are researches of ethnic groups and indigenous peoples, with a cultural, ethnic, social and political focus, and the lack of a semiotic study of the clothing and the real meaning of the Cacha indigenous people is notorious. On the other hand, the inadequacy of clothing inquiries, allows promoting design proposals that aim to preserve the cultural heritage of the Cacha community. At the same time, an investigation with semiotic features is sought, using the theory and semiological method of Charles Sanders Peirce, to know the traditional clothing of a culture of Ecuador, from the semiological theory. It also allows knowing the concept and conception of each component that makes up the clothing. The present investigative work presents a qualitative approach, because it deals with methodical and empirical processes to generate knowledge. In the same way the sample is non-probabilistic, homogeneous and chain or networks, raised directly to the predominant families of the community, also to the artisans of Cacha. Its purpose is to preserve the living clothing memory. When making design proposals with semiotic features of the traditional clothing Cacha, contributing to the valorization of identity clothing of said community.