Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes / Rachel Corr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corr, Rachel.

Series:

First peoples (2010)

First peoples

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Ecuador--Salasaca--History.

Catholic Church.

Indians of South America--Ecuador--Salasaca--History.

Indians of South America.

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

Indians of South America--Ecuador--Salasaca--Religion.

Fasts and feasts--Ecuador--Salasaca--History.

Fasts and feasts.

Salasaca (Ecuador)--History.

Salasaca (Ecuador).

Salasaca (Ecuador)--Religious life and customs.

Salasaca (Ecuador)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8165-0111-4

OCLC:

747413927