Análisis semiótico de «La magia y el mito en la cura del mal del ojo en Cuenca»

Abstract

This paper will address the issue of the significance of the rite of the "cure the evil eye" in the city of Cuenca. This rite of healing is within the traditional medicine as an element of popular culture, as part of the Andean world. We try to describe and interpret the role of the rite as an element of culture; perform some ideas about the elements and their correlations with the language used in the treatment of the "evil eye" into the Cuenca society. Likewise the different meanings of the symbolic elements; cuy, plants, candles, eggs, alcohol, coal, garlic, ribbons, among others, to analyze how these complement the linguistic oral texts and help locate and clarify certain specific directions for the development of cultural and ritualistic practice of "cura del mal de ojo ". For this we will use the method of semiotic analysis proposed by Luis Panier argue that for a semiotic reading must seek the meaning of the text by planes or levels: discursive, narrative and limited in where relationships are recorded between moments of production and receiving text and allows us to establish consistent levels of observation.