Andean Celebration; Celebración Andina; Cultura Expresiva; Declaratoria Patrimonial; Diablada Pillareña; Expressive Culture; Heritage Statement; Intangible Heritage; Patrimonio Inmaterial;

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The Diablada Pillareña is a popular and patrimonial celebration of the city of Píllaro, province of Tungurahua in Ecuador, that takes place the first 6 days of every year. To interpret la Diablada Pillareña I use an autoethnographic method, which takes advantage of my cognitive-affective memories of the festival, as an involved participant dancer, whose life story, after 15 years of dancing, is crossed by the diablada. I follow Gisela Cánepa Koch, in her idea of expressive culture, a concept and a method that does not look for ancestral, essential, mythical or pre-established meanings in Andean celebrations, but is interested in the practical meanings that are put into play and that are actualized in each diablada. To look for changes in the diablada in the period 1990-2020, I follow Alejandro Diez Hurtado who proposes 3 types of changes in Andean festivities: peripheral changes, complementary changes and destructuring changes. I find two destabilizing moments: the elimination of the confrontations at the beginning of the 1990s, and the Patrimonial Declaration of the 2008 festival.