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Author:

Latin American Symposium (12th : 2004 : San Diego Museum of Man)

Title:

Mesas & cosmologies in the central Andes / edited by Douglas Sharon.

Publisher:

San Diego Museum of Man,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xi, 143 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Indians of South America--Andes Region--Rites and ceremonies--Congresses.
Indians of South America--Peru--Rites and ceremonies--Congresses.
Shamanism--Andes Region--Congresses.
Shamanism--Peru--Congresses.
Cosmology--Congresses.
Mexico--Ritual--Mexico

Other Authors:

Sharon, Douglas. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78057573

Notes:

"Papers presented at the 12th Latin American Symposium, San Diego Museum of Man, March 6, 2004"--P. vi. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Social organization as ritual : the Chipaya Andreans of the Bolivian altiplano / Shamanism, mesas, and cosmologies in the central Andes / Henry Migala. Andean cosmology and cosmography in the North Peruvian shamanic mesa / Mariuo Polia -- Spellbound : love and magic on the north coast of Perú / Luis Millones The Laura León-Llerena -- Curanderismo at La Pescadera-Salas / Donald Skillman -- Consructing the mesas : from extirpation to adoration / Donald Joralemon -- The emergence of the modern mesa : African influence and syncretisms revisited / Bonnie Glass-Coffin -- Chavín de Huántar : evidence for an evolved shamanism / John W. Rick -- The power of the Enqaychu and the cosmos of Andean pastoralists / Inge Bolin -- Mounty-body metaphor of Kallawaya Andeans expressed in mesas / Joseph W. Bastien -- Social organization as ritual : the Chipaya Andreans of the Bolivian altiplano / Henry Migala.

Series:

San Diego Museum papers ; no. 44

ISBN:

9780937808825
0937808822

OCLC:

(OCoLC)154946310

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)