Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (201 pages)
- First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies .
- First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. The Salasaca Runa -- Part I: Collective Rituals and Memory -- 2. The Catechist and the Quishuar Tree: Religious Transculturation in the Andean Contact Zone -- 3. Textual Strategies and Ritual Control in Early Twentieth-Century Salasaca -- 4. Prayer and Placemaking in the Andes: Staffholders and Cultural Memory -- 5. Life Lessons at a Time of Death -- Part II: Individual Acts and Personal Narratives -- 6. Tales of Amazonia: Personal Narratives of Healing by Yumbos -- 7. Shamanism -- 8. Narrating the Sacred Landscape: Religious Ethnographies of the Particular -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index.
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Catholic Church-Ecuador-Salasaca-History. Indians of South America-Ecuador-Salasaca-History. Indians of South America-Ecuador-Salasaca-Rites and ceremonies. Indians of South America-Ecuador-Salasaca-Religion. Fasts and feasts-Ecuador-Salasaca-History. Salasaca (Ecuador)-History. Salasaca (Ecuador)-Religious life and customs. Salasaca (Ecuador)-Social life and customs.