Andean cosmologies through time : persistence and emergence
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Andean cosmologies through time : persistence and emergence
(Caribbean and Latin American studies)
Indiana University Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Concerned with Andean cosmology both as the manifestation of a system of belief and as a way of thinking or worldview that orders the social environment, this volume advances an explanation of why Andean indigenous communities are still recognizably Andean after a half-millennium of forced exposure to Western systems of thought and belief. Dealing with cultural authenticity in an Andean context, the essays describe a process facilitated by a cosmology which readily integrates the accoutrements of non-Andean community. At issue is not so much what is authentic but, rather, how it is perceived to be authentic and how it is so maintained. The nine authors explore a model in which a consistent and persistent cosmological discourse leads, not to an emergent social order, but to a social order which continually emerges as a peculiarly Andean phenomenon.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Robert V.H. Dover Inca Cosmos in Andean Context: From the Perspective of the Capac Raymi Camay Quilla Feast Celebrating the December Solstice in Cuzco: R. Tom Zuidema Water Ideology in Inca Ethnogenesis: Jeanette E. Sherbondy Catechisms and Confessionarios: Distorting Mirrors of Andean Societies: Monica Barnes Exemplary Ancestors and Pernicious Spirits: Sibundoy Concepts of Culture Evolution: John H. McDowell Inside/Outside, Which Side Counts? Duality-of-self adn Bipartization in Quechua: Lawrence K. Carpenter Shaman versus Nurse in an Aymara Village: Traditional and Modern Medicine in Conflict: Joseph W. Bastien Textiles and Cosmology in Choquecancha, Cuzco, Peru: Katharine E. Seibold Reinvented Tradition: The Heraldry of Ethnic Militancy in the Colombian Andes: Joanne Rappaport Communalism and Defferentiation in an Andean Community: Gary Urton Contributors Index
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