Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes
By: Rachel Corr
Series: First peoples; First peoples (Tucson, Ariz.)
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780816528301
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Collective rituals and memory. The catechist and the Quishuar tree : religious taansculturation 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; title: Individual acts and personal narratives. Tales of Amazonia : personal narratives of healing by yumbos ; Shamanism ; Narrating the sacred landscape : religious ethnographies of the particular.