Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes / / Rachel Corr

• Autore: Corr Rachel
• Pubblicazione: Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 986.15
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Salasaca (Ecuador) History; Salasaca (Ecuador) Religious life and customs; Salasaca (Ecuador) Social life and customs
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes
• ISBN: 0-8165-0111-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964509903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: First peoples (2010)