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Ritos y ceremonias andinas en torno a la vida y la muerte en el noroeste Argentino / Amalia Vargas.
LIBRA GT3231.A2 V37 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vargas, Amalia, author.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Argentina.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Indians of South America--Funeral customs and rites--Argentina.
- Indians of South America.
- Physical Description:
- 261 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Buenos Aires : Editorial Biblos, [2020]
- Summary:
- With remarkable ethnographic precision and fidelity to ancestral mandates, Amalia Vargas describes and analyzes the Andean mortuary rituals in northwestern Argentina that are part of her own culture. Vargas offers not only an approach to beliefs about death, but also, and fundamentally, to the meaning that a community gives to life. This sense is woven from the celebration of the cult that people give to their ancestors who preceded them, the continuity of tradition and life, which contains a particular vision of the world. Such a particularity gives this and other Andean communities a universal breath that is associated with a shared concern for human beings of all times and places.
- Contents:
- El significado de la muerte
- La muerte y los pasos rituales
- El luto y el duelo
- Río de purificación
- Ritos de despedida de las almas
- El cuerpo, el altar y su valor simbólico
- Construcción de imágenes del muerto
- En ritualidad constante
- El compadrazgo del Día de los Difuntos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789876919005
- 9876919008
- OCLC:
- 1237757600
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