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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964509903321

Autore

Corr Rachel

Titolo

Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes / / Rachel Corr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8165-0111-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

First peoples

Disciplina

986.15

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Ecuador - Salasaca - History

Indians of South America - Ecuador - Salasaca - Rites and ceremonies

Indians of South America - Ecuador - Salasaca - Religion

Fasts and feasts - Ecuador - Salasaca - History

Salasaca (Ecuador) History

Salasaca (Ecuador) Religious life and customs

Salasaca (Ecuador) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Collective rituals and memory. The catechist and the Quishuar tree : religious taansculturation in the Andean contact zone ; Textual strategies and ritual control in early twentieth-century Salasaca ; Prayer and placemaking in the Andes : staffholders and cultural memory ; Life lessons at a time of death -- Individual acts and personal narratives. Tales of Amazonia : personal narratives of healing by yumbos ; Shamanism ; Narrating the sacred landscape : religious ethnographies of the particular.

Sommario/riassunto

Not every world culture that has battled colonization has suffered or died.In the Ecuadorian Andean parish of Salasaca, the indigenous culture has stayed true to itself and its surroundings for centuries while adapting to each new situation.