Ritual encounters
Subtitle: Otavalan modern and mythic community
By: Michelle Wibbelsman.
Series: Interpretations of culture in the new millennium
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780252033971; 9780252076039
Subjects: Otavalo Indians -- Social life and customs; Otavalo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Otavalo mythology; Imbabura (Ecuador) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Uku Pacha; title: the world below; title: Return of the migrants; title: Encuentros : dances of the Inti Raymi; title: Mythico-religious encounters; title: the clash of Aciales; title: Conversations with the dead; title: Stations of the cross : the eternal return to existence and hence to suffering.