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Author:

Corr, Rachel.

Title:

Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes / Rachel Corr.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 184 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians of South America--Salasaca--Salasaca--History.
Indians of South America--Salasaca--Salasaca--Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of South America--Salasaca--Salasaca--Religion.
Catholic Church--Salasaca--Salasaca--History.
Fasts and feasts--Salasaca--Salasaca--History.
Salasaca (Ecuador)--History.
Salasaca (Ecuador)--Religious life and customs.
Salasaca (Ecuador)--Social life and customs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-182) and index.

Contents:

The Salasaca runa -- pt. 1. Collective rituals and memory. The catechist and the Quishuar tree : religious transculturation 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 -- pt. 2. Individual acts and personal narratives. Tales of Amazonia : personal narratives of healing by yumbos ; Shamanism ; Narrating the sacred landscape : religious ethnographies of the particular.

Series:

First peoples.

ISBN:

0816528306 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780816528301 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)431933998

LCCN:

2009032147

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)