Pottery, knowledge and ancestral tradition of Jatunpamba, a representative cultural icon of the province of Cañar, Ecuador

Abstract

Preserving and spreading the customs, cultures and traditions of ancestral peoples, in today’s technologized world, is an urgent need. The cultural documentary, “Manos, Fuego y Barro Alfarería, Ancestral Tradition in Jatunpamba”, is an audiovisual project that reveals the history, culture, tradition and the process of artisanal elaboration of clay pots by the potter Aurora Fernández, the oldest in the Community of Jatunpamba, with the use of the hitting technique or huactanas. At work, based on a qualitative-quantitative methodology, an analysis of the content of the documentary is carried out and the way in which young people in the second and third year of high school from the different schools in the city of Azogues perceive tradition, culture and the process of making clay pots. Its initial motivation was the ignorance that the young people of this city had about the cultural value, identity, tradition and the artisanal process of making clay pots with the use of the hitting technique or huactanas.